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Mark Gilbert, "Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy" (Norton, 2024)
44 mins; June 13, 2024
Joseph A. Skloot, "First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
56 mins; June 08, 2024
Citizen Soldiers, Republican Virtues, and the Roman Way of War
72 hours 28 mins; June 06, 2024
Grazia Ting Deng, "Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
41 mins; April 14, 2024
Elizabeth Coggeshall, "On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante’s Italy" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
54 mins; April 08, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)
35 mins; April 07, 2024
Chiara Renzo, "Jewish Displaced Persons in Italy 1943-1951: Politics, Rehabilitation, Identity" (Routledge, 2023)
36 mins; March 24, 2024
Colin Elliott, "Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
50 mins; March 19, 2024
Myrto Garani et al., "The Oxford Handbook of Roman Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
52 mins; March 09, 2024
Roseen Giles, "Monteverdi and the Marvellous: Poetry, Sound, and Representation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
59 mins; March 04, 2024
Obert Bernard Mlambo, "Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe: Veterans, Masculinity and War" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
60 hours 25 mins; February 27, 2024
T. Corey Brennan, "The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol" (Oxford UP, 2022)
49 mins; February 21, 2024
Mara Josi, "Rome, 16 October 1943: History, Memory, Literature" (Legenda, 2023)
67 hours 20 mins; February 20, 2024
Why is Right-Wing Extremism so Widespread in Italy?
36 mins; February 19, 2024
Alexander Henry, "War Through Italian Eyes: Fighting for Mussolini, 1940-1943" (Routledge, 2021)
90 hours 30 mins; February 19, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)
49 mins; February 13, 2024
Matteo Millan, "The Blackshirts' Dictatorship: Armed Squads, Political Violence, and the Consolidation of Mussolini's Regime" (Routledge, 2022)
90 hours 59 mins; February 12, 2024
Neil Bernstein, "The Complete Works of Claudian" (Routledge, 2022)
29 mins; February 07, 2024
Marco Armiero et al., "Mussolini's Nature: An Environmental History of Italian Fascism" (MIT Press, 2022)
69 hours 57 mins; January 30, 2024
Adrian Goldsworthy, "Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry" (Basic Books, 2023)
64 hours 54 mins; January 25, 2024
Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)
53 mins; January 25, 2024
Ian MacAllen, "Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
52 mins; January 22, 2024
Jessica Goethals, "Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
64 hours 26 mins; January 20, 2024
Kyle Gervais et al., "Lucan and Flavian Epic" (Brill, 2023)
56 mins; January 19, 2024
Peter J. Williamson, "Duce: The Contradictions of Power: The Political Leadership of Benito Mussolini" (Oxford UP, 2023)
91 hours 42 mins; January 09, 2024
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, "Genocide in Libya: Shar, a Hidden Colonial History" (Routledge, 2020)
65 hours 18 mins; January 09, 2024
Seth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
35 mins; January 07, 2024
Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)
60 hours 31 mins; January 06, 2024
Roman Politics, Familiar Yet Foreign: A Conversation with Jed Atkins
56 mins; January 02, 2024
John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
56 mins; January 01, 2024
Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, "The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance" (Lexington Books, 2023)
66 hours 57 mins; December 30, 2023
Timothy McCall, "Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
64 hours 31 mins; December 25, 2023
Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford UP, 2021)
65 hours 35 mins; December 25, 2023
Alice Cavalieri, "Italian Budgeting Policy: Between Punctuations and Incrementalism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
53 mins; December 16, 2023
Paolo Caroli, "Transitional Justice in Italy and the Crimes of Fascism and Nazism" (Routledge, 2022)
97 hours 1 min; December 10, 2023
D. L. d'Avray, "The Power of Protocol: Diplomatics and the Dynamics of Papal Government, c. 400-c.1600" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
79 hours 13 mins; November 30, 2023
Lidia Katia C. Manzo, "Gentrification and Diversity: Rebranding Milan's Chinatown" (Springer, 2023)
59 mins; November 20, 2023
David Alan Parnell, "Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian" (Oxford UP, 2023)
57 mins; November 04, 2023
Richard Carrier, "Mussolini's Army Against Greece: October 1940-April 1941" (Routledge, 2021)
69 hours 30 mins; November 01, 2023
Leonie Hannan, "A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home" (Manchester UP, 2023)
57 mins; October 30, 2023
Simone Varriale, "Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migrations: Intersecting Inequalities in Post-2008 Italian Migration" (Bristol UP, 2023)
38 mins; October 29, 2023
Kevin Passmore, "Fascism: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2014)
43 mins; October 22, 2023
Jana Randow and Alessandro Speciale, "Mario Draghi, the Craftsman: The True Story of the Man Who Saved the Euro" (Rizzoli, 2019)
53 mins; October 14, 2023
Andrea Celli, "Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy: From Muslim Spain to Post-Colonial Italy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
48 mins; October 11, 2023
Benjamin Savill, "England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, C. 680-1073" (Oxford UP, 2023)
60 hours 12 mins; October 06, 2023
Martina Mampieri, "Living Under the Evil Pope: The Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV by Benjamin Neḥemiah Ben Elnathan from Civitanova Marche (Brill, 2019)
82 hours 31 mins; September 30, 2023
Michael Kochenash, "Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God" (Fortress Academic, 2020)
91 hours 2 mins; September 26, 2023
Neil Tarrant, "Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
69 hours 19 mins; September 13, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
32 mins; September 12, 2023
Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)
65 hours 35 mins; September 10, 2023
Jared Secord, "Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire: From Justin Martyr to Origen" (Penn State UP, 2020)
49 mins; September 09, 2023
Bonnie Gordon, "Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
57 mins; August 31, 2023
Ari Finkelstein, "The Specter of the Jews: Emperor Julian and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity in Syrian Antioch" (U California Press, 2018)
71 hours 0 mins; August 26, 2023
David Broder, "Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy" (Pluto Press, 2023)
72 hours 22 mins; August 20, 2023
Toward a More Expansive View of Medieval Europe: Kyivan Rus and Norman Salerno in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
68 hours 19 mins; August 14, 2023
Judith Roumani, "Jews in Southern Tuscany During the Holocaust" (Lexington Books, 2020)
88 hours 38 mins; July 15, 2023
Simona Berhe and Olindo de Napoli, "Citizens and Subjects of the Italian Colonies: Legal Constructions and Social Practices, 1882-1943" (Routledge, 2021)
86 hours 1 min; July 13, 2023
Chris Wickham, "The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180" (Oxford UP, 2023)
49 mins; July 03, 2023
Joëlle Rollo-Koster, "The Great Western Schism, 1378-1417: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
71 hours 34 mins; June 29, 2023
The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital
15 mins; June 20, 2023
Daniel A. Klein, "Shadal on Numbers: Samuel David Luzzatto's Interpretation of the Book of Bemidbar" (Kodesh Press, 2023)
27 mins; June 18, 2023
Jessica M. Marglin, "The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean" (Princeton UP, 2022)
58 mins; May 27, 2023
Nicholas Scott Baker, "In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
58 mins; May 26, 2023
Maurizio Isabella, "Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions" (Princeton UP, 2023)
42 mins; May 23, 2023
Rosamond McKitterick, "Rome and the Invention of the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
46 mins; May 23, 2023
Carlo Parisi, "Dagger Fencing: The Italian School" (Fallen Rook, 2016)
52 mins; May 20, 2023
Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida, "Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
61 hours 19 mins; May 13, 2023
Andrew R. Casper, "An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
56 mins; May 11, 2023
Francis Xavier Clooney, "Saint Joseph in South India: Poetry, Mission and Theology in Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi" (Brill, 2022)
61 hours 21 mins; May 04, 2023
Corrado Confalonieri, "Torquato Tasso and the Desire for Unity: 'Jerusalem Delivered' and a New Theory of the Epic" (Carocci editore, 2022)
73 hours 43 mins; April 27, 2023
Mònica Calabritto, "Murder and Madness on Trial: A Tale of True Crime from Early Modern Bologna" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)
52 mins; April 23, 2023
Luca Zan, "The Venice Arsenal: Between History, Heritage, and Re-Use" (Routledge, 2022)
57 mins; April 16, 2023
Maria Pasquale, "The Eternal City: Recipes and Stories from Rome" (Smith Street Books, 2023)
50 mins; April 14, 2023
Christopher S. Celenza, "The Italian Renaissance and the Origin of the Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
58 mins; April 13, 2023
Jacques Dalarun et al., "A Female Apostle in Medieval Italy: The Life of Clare of Rimini" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
49 mins; April 10, 2023
David I. Kertzer, "The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler" (Random House, 2022)
27 mins; April 06, 2023
Mauro Resmini, "Italian Political Cinema: Figure of the Long '68" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
73 hours 58 mins; April 04, 2023
Susan Gravely, "Italy on a Plate: Travels, Memories, Menus" (Vietri Publishing, 2023)
42 mins; March 22, 2023
Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos, "Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingual Literatures, Arts, and Cultures" (Manchester UP, 2022)
54 mins; March 03, 2023
Marilyn Migiel, "Veronica Franco in Dialogue" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
77 hours 22 mins; March 02, 2023
Kenneth R. Stow, "Anna and Tranquillo: Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions" (Yale UP, 2016)
85 hours 9 mins; February 28, 2023
Thomas Kuehn, "Patrimony and Law in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
47 mins; February 27, 2023
Silvia Nacamulli, "Jewish Flavours of Italy: A Family Cookbook" (Green Bean Books, 2022)
53 mins; January 25, 2023
James Morton, "Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy" (Oxford UP, 2021)
75 hours 33 mins; January 21, 2023
Wolfgang P. Müller, "Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
50 mins; January 21, 2023
The Future of the European Left
47 mins; January 20, 2023
Stuart Carroll, "Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
51 mins; January 16, 2023
Robin Vose, "The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle Over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God" (Reaktion, 2022)
52 mins; January 09, 2023
Andreas Guidi, "Generations of Empire: Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
69 hours 4 mins; December 22, 2022
Clara E. Mattei, "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
60 hours 46 mins; December 19, 2022
Jane Stevenson, "Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2022)
54 mins; December 10, 2022
Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, "Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934-1950" (Stanford UP, 2022)
60 hours 53 mins; December 06, 2022
On Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy"
41 mins; November 30, 2022
On Matteo Maria Boiardo's "Orlando Innamorato"
27 mins; November 21, 2022
Guido Ruggiero, "Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
53 mins; November 16, 2022
On Boethius' "The Consolation of Philosophy"
25 mins; November 16, 2022
On Cicero's "On Friendship"
29 mins; October 28, 2022
Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Lives of the Painters"
62 hours 56 mins; October 25, 2022
Camilla Russell, "Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy: Biographical Writing in the Early Global Age" (Harvard UP, 2022)
54 mins; October 21, 2022
Eden Collinsworth, "What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait" (Doubleday Books, 2022)
48 mins; October 20, 2022
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