Presenting a vivid mosaic of dramatic, comic, and tragic stories, all set in the Eternal City, these twenty absorbing tales capture the delight of discovering and exploring one of the world's most beloved cities. Spanning seven hundred years, this marvelous collection includes works by Italian authors ranging from Boccaccio and Casanova to Pier Paolo Pasolini and Alberto Moravia. Rather than being ordered chronologically, old and new appear alongside one another, reflecting the dual identity of Rome as both an ancient city that is one of the wonders of the world, and a thriving, modern metropolis. The tales are wonderfully varied in style, tone, and subject matter: a notorious Spanish prostitute in Renaissance Rome endures a public hiding without flinching; Pope John Paul II uncovers a vast conspiracy against him; a medieval revolutionary demagogue suffers almost the same fate as Mussolini. Each story is illustrated with a black-and-white photograph and there is a map of Rome to help readers locate the sites featured in the text.

Rome Tales (City Tales)

Literature & Fiction

Shankland, Hugh

Genre Fiction

Oxford University Press

A guide to Italy and Italian society, which covers such topics as climate, dress, family life, physical contact and body language, eating out, travel, food and drink, doing business, the spoken word, the Italian attitude to foreigners, leisure pursuits and taboos. There is also a section on useful words and phrases. The author has spent over 20 years visiting Italy and teaching the language.

Simple Etiquette in Italy

Business & Money

Business Culture

Paul Norbury

A comprehensive ready-reckoner to the customs and etiquette of Italy. In discovering the 'heart' of Italy -- a country the author has known for over thirty years -- and what makes Italians tick, Hugh Shankland is able to lead the reader to a level of understanding and provide an insight that will prove indispensable to any traveler, for business or pleasure. This is more than a 'do's' and 'don'ts' guide to Italy: it is equivalent to owning the insider's 'Priviledge Card'.Contents: Attitude to Foreigners (including sharing food, a celebration of life and loving to be loved); The Country, People &amp; Climate (including Italy's many identities, power and politics, the north and south cultures); The Family, Men &amp; Women (including dealing with Italian men, and taking care of 'number one'); Dress &amp; Style (including 'la bella figura'); Social Occasions &amp; Situations (including kissing and shaking hands, formal and informal language and etiquette); Communicating (including the art of conversation, 'sounding Italian', useful grammatical guidelines and understand gestures); Food &amp; Drink; Facts About Italy; Index

Customs & Etiquette Of Italy (SIMPLE GUIDES CUSTOMS AND ETIQUETTE)

Travel

Europe

Bravo Ltd.

This volume contains insights into Italy's multifaceted culture and way of life that continue to amaze and surprise, and to defy the social and economic logic that obtains in most other advanced industrial nations. Italy, like the huge (and often undiscovered) range of wines it produces, remains a country of vivid and contrasting traditions and ways of life, yet united in a single but fantastic obsession - football, and perhaps style too.

The Simple Guide to Customs and Etiquette in Italy (SIMPLE GUIDES CUSTOMS AND ETIQUETTE)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Simple Guide to Italy. A great guide book for getting around Italy. It's small and easy to slide into a bag while traveling.

Simple Guide to Italy: Customs & Etiquette (SIMPLE GUIDES CUSTOMS AND ETIQUETTE)

Global Books Ltd

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