Grazia Bellano Westphal, Patricia Ghezzi. Dialogues vidéo, Compétences, Culture et citoyenneté, ESABAC. Impara il linguaggio Francese. €10.
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Le Porte di Roma
Angela Giovagnoli. Edizioni del Pasquino, ©1973. Softcover, 137 pagine. Ricco di fotografie in nero, fuori testo, di Enrico Blasi e Massimo Trombetti e di illustrazioni nel testo. €5.
Caravaggio
Patrick Hunt. Haus Publishing, London, ©2004. Softcover, 162 pages. Underlining and occasional extra notes by me. Concise, all the data you need. €5.
Ravenna, City of Art
Edizioni Salbaroli-Ravenna. No author, no date. Softcover, 143 pages. An excellent, concise, well illustrate book. A good prelude to seeing the actual mosaics. The Italian guides published (in English) by Edizioni Salbaroli of Milan are the best around. This one contains a brief potted history (no mean feat as it was a very important place at one time), a simple…
The Fifteenth Century Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel
Recent Restorations, Volume IV. Jorge Maria Cardinal Mejia, Arnold Nesselrath e others. Vatican City State, ©2003. Softcover, 249 pages. 222 colour photographs, 7 b/w photographs, 12 diagrams. Completely dedicated to the restoration of the frescoes depicting episodes in the lives of Christ and Moses, painted on the side walls of the Sistine Chapel by some of the greatest artists of…
Raphael’s School of Athens
Recent Restorations, Volume I. Arnold Nesselrath. Vatican City State, ©1997. Softcover, 109 pages – 37 pages of text, the rest are plates. This volume, documenting its restoration, is richly illustrated and carefully documented in minute detail. This monumental work of Renaissance art, painted as a tribute to the virtue of Truth, will be further understood and appreciated by art lovers…
Guide to the Masterpieces of the Pinacoteca Vaticana
Barbara Furlotti. Scala, ©2008. Softcover, 125 pages with index. Underlining in pencil. A lot of guides won’t do the Pinacoteca, because there it appears like you really have to know your stuff. Well, this is the book to get you started. Rather than suffer the crowds of the Raphael Rooms, you can take your guests on a walk through art…
Enchiridion Biblicum. Documenti della Chiesa sulla Sacra Scrittura
Ediz. Bilingue (è trilinguale – anche in Greco!). Traduttore: S. Bittasi, L. Ravaglia, Curatore: A. Filippi, E. Lora, Editore: EDB, Anno edizione: 1994 Pagine: 1361 + Index, 86 pp. p., Rilegato (hardcover) A cinquant’anni dall’enciclica Divino afflante Spiritu di Pio XII, e a un secolo dalla Providentissimus Deus di Leone XII, si sono voluti raccogliere in un unico volume i…
Guida allo Studio del Greco / Guida allo Studio dell’Ebraico
Guida allo Studio del Greco del Nuovo Testamento. Carlo Buzzetti, Girolama de Luca, Giorgio Massi. Società Biblica Britannica e Forestiera, 2002. Hardcover, 441pp. Inoltre è inclusa una fotocopia pulita del libretto delle risposte. €20. Guida allo Studio dell’Ebraico Biblico. Giovanni Deiana. Ambrogio Spreafico, Jan Alberto Soggin. Urbaniana Univ. Press, 2002. Hardcover, 225pp. Usual student notes. Poor student price –…
The Romans, Their Gods and Their Beliefs
Margaret , Werner Forman. Orbis, London, 1984. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, 128pp, index. Color images throughout. Margaret’s work over the years led to the re-dating of such important sites as Petra. Although English, she did her doctoral thesis while living in Italy. This present work is considered a popular and lucid work. €5.