Ravenna1
Art History, Mosaics, Tour Guide Interest

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…

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Art History, Catholic Theology, Tour Guide Interest

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…

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Athens1
Art History, Rome, Tour Guide Interest

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…

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Catholic Theology, Scripture Languages, Scripture Study, Scritto in italiano, Written in Italian

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…

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GrecoEbraico1
Catholic Theology, Scripture Languages, Scripture Study

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 –…

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RomanGodsLyttelton1
Ancient Rome, Tour Guide Interest

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.