Gruppo Archeologico Romano. Ernesto De Carolis. ©1989, Softcover, 111 pages. Testo italiano. Dell’ampia produzione greca non rimangono purtroppo che pallidi riflessi nella contemporanea pittura vasaria e nelle pitture tombali dell’Italia centro-meridionale. Questo libro ripercorre tutta la storia della pittura greca dalle origini fino all’incontro con il mondo romano, con un completo e dettagliato catalogo dei maggiori pittori greci e delle…
Augusto Ancillotti, Romolo Cerri. Edizioni Jama Perugia, 1997. Softcover, 126 pages. Color photos, facsimiles, transliterated text, translation and comment. The Iguvine Tablets, also known as the Eugubian Tablets or Eugubine Tables, are a series of seven bronze tablets from ancient Iguvium (Gubbio), Italy. The earliest tablets, written in the native Umbrian alphabet, were probably produced…
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.
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.
(Carl Newell Jackson Lectures) ,Walter Burkert. Harvard, 1987. Soft cover, 181pp. 12 illustrations. The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the larger culture of the public religion of Greece and Rome for roughly a thousand years. This book is neither…
Ramsay MacMullen. Yale, 1984. Softcover, 183pp. Professor MacMullen examines the question from a secular – rather than ecclesiastical – viewpoint, and his conclusion is that mass conversions to Christianity were based more on the appeal of miracle or the opportunity for worldly advantages than simply on a “rising tide of Christian piety”. The book has a full complement of notes…
Italian Renaissance and Greece, Vol. 1. National Gallery, 2003. cm.23×31, pp. 583. peso 2.750 kilo. €15. Paintings, sculptures, bronze statuettes, wedding chests, medals, plaquettes, illustrated manuscripts, majolicas, and rare and valuable objects such as cameos and seals from the Medici treasures captured the magic of the Renaissance, marked by its longing for the Greek antiquity. Legendary heroes of this great…
Chronicle of the Roman Emperors. The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of the Imperial Rome. Chris Scarre. Thames and Hudson. Hardcover with dustjacket. 1995. 240 pages. 328 illustrations, 111 in color. Index. 191 x 253 x 25.4mm. weighs 1,040 grams. €10. I found this book so good, I bought the entire set! Chronicle of the Roman Emperors…
Diana E. E. Kleiner. Yale University Press. 1992. Softcover. 477 pages. Black and white photos throughout. Weighs 1,670 grams, but oversized. €15. Underlining and notes in pencil throughout, but this only shows the importance and value of the information contained in the book. “In this classic book the author discusses all the major public and private monuments in Rome, as…
Profumi, unguenti e acconciature in Pompei antica. Carlo Giordano, Angelandrea Casale. 1992. 2nd edition, revised by Laurentino Carcia. Bardi, Roma. Bilingual, 93 pages. Color and black and white images throughout. 300 grams. €10. Out of print. Excellent condition – bought and never read.