Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar(tm) Nominee James Ivory The Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted Screenplay A New York Times Bestseller A...

The Inferno is the first part of The Divine Comedy, Dante's epic poem describing man's progress from hell to paradise. In it, the author is lost in a dark wood, threatened by wild beasts and unable to find the right path to salvation. Notable for its nine circles of hell, the poem vividly...

A literary prank leads to deadly danger in this "endlessly diverting" intellectual thriller by the author of The Name of the Rose ( Time).   Bored with their work, three Milanese book editors cook up an elaborate hoax that connects the medieval...

Robert M. Edsel's contributions as a WWII historian have brought wide attention and a National Humanities Medal to his Monuments Men Foundation. In Saving Italy, Edsel recounts how, in May 1944, General Eisenhower sent two men--artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt--on a desperate hunt to...

Named the #1 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times: The "enduring classic" about the lifelong friendship of two women from Naples ( The Atlantic).   Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples,...

From the bestselling author of" Los Alamos" and "The Good German" comes a riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in postwar Venice It is 1946, and a stunned Europe is beginning its slow recovery from the ravages of World War II. Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother...

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"Dramatic, heartbreaking and sweeping in scope." --Wall Street Journal The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the "moving finale" (The Economist) of her Resistance Quartet--the powerful and inspiring true story of the women of the partisan resistance who fought against...

"A love letter to the history, traditions and culinaria of one of the richest and most complex regions of Italy." --Stanley Tucci In other places, it might seem trite or cliché to say that love is an essential component of cooking, food, and dining....