Download or read book Love Italian Style written by Melissa Gorga and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real Housewives of New Jersey star Melissa Gorga shows you how to love your man and keep him happy, satisfied, faithful, and devoted to you. What you see is what you get with Melissa Gorga. On Real Housewives of New Jersey, she's that beautiful, ambitious woman with a successful career who puts her family first. In fact, her stable yet sexy marriage to lovable Joe is a welcome antidote to the constant fighting and backbiting on the show. Despite the pressure of life in the spotlight, she makes marriage look easy. How does she do it? Melissa's overriding principle: Treat your husband like a king! And in return, you'll be treated like a queen! In Love Italian Style, Melissa shares her (and his) secrets to relationship success—generations-tested old-fashioned values served up with a modern, sexy twist. To her, the four tenets to a happy marriage are respect, honesty, loyalty, and passion (underscore passion). By sharing her and Joe's life together—from the story of their first date to how they still keep it hot in the bedroom a decade later—Melissa admits that, yes, marriage has been a lot of work, but the rewards are ten-fold. With her time-tested strategies, you can "Gorganize" your own relationship, strengthen your bond, and amp up the passion for lifelong bliss. Some of Melissa's how-to's: · Dress to impress your man. · Flirt with your hubby. · Cook Italian style. · Fight right. · Keep the romance alive and the home fires burning. · Raise little princes and princesses. This playful guidebook promises to make any marriage better—the Gorga way!

Download or read book The Passion Bargain written by Michelle Reid and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlo Carlucci won't take no for an answer.The passionate Italian pursues tour guideFrancesca Bernard, who stirs him with her beautyand innocence more than any other woman.But Francesca is also an heiress, and alreadyengaged to a man whom Carlo believes is agold digger. There's only one way he canprotect Francesca—and satisfy his desire—andthat's to claim her for himself, as his wife!

Download or read book Damien s Return written by Elizabeth Lennox and published by Elizabeth Lennox Books LLC. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night of passion changes everything.... Business tycoon Damien Alfieri will never forget her. Six years ago, he searched for the woman who gave him undeniable pleasure. Damien finally gives up and tries to move on with his life. But when he encounters Jemma unexpectedly on a farm in the hills of Virginia, he knows that he won't let her go this time. Jemma has other plans... Damien's appearance after so many years rocks Jemma’s comfortable and simple existence. She's determined to keep their one night in the past while hiding the truth of that night. So much more came out of their magical night than just a broken heart, and Jemma refuses to admit her secret. Damien is determined to uncover the reason for her distance. As they begin to grow closer, Jemma knows that she must reveal the truth--even if it means she may lose the most important person in her life. Will Damien's return destroy everything Jemma built or will the truth of the past build a new future for all of them together?

Download or read book Passion on the Vine written by Sergio Esposito and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young child in Naples, Italy, Sergio Esposito sat at his kitchen table observing the daily ritual of his large, loud family bonding over fresh local dishes and simple country wines. While devouring the rich bufala mozzarella, still sopping with milk and salt, and the platters of fresh prosciutto, sliced so thin he could see through it, he absorbed the profound relationship of food, wine, and family in Italian culture. Growing up in Albany, New York, after emigrating there with his family, he always sat next to his uncle Aldo and sipped from his wineglass during their customary hours-long extended family feasts. Thus, from a very early age, Esposito came to associate wine with the warmth of family, the tastes of his mother’s cooking—and, above all, memories of his former life in Italy. When he was in his twenties, he headed for New York and undertook a career in wine, beginning a journey that would culminate in his founding of Italian Wine Merchants, now the leading Italian wine source in America. His career offered him the opportunity to make frequent trips back to Italy to find wine for his clients, to learn the traditions of Italian winemaking, and, in so doing, to rediscover the Italian way of life he’d left behind. Passion on the Vine is Esposito’s intimate and evocative memoir of his colorful family life in Italy, his abrupt transition to life in America, and of his travels into the heart of Italy—its wine country—and the lives of those who inhabit it. The result is a remarkably engaging and entertaining wine/travel narrative replete with vivid portraits of seductive places—the world-famous cellars of Piedmont, the sweeping estates of Tuscany, the lush fields of Campania, the chilly hills of Friuli, the windy beaches of Le Marche; and of memorable people, diverse and vibrant wine artisans—from a disco-dancing vintner who bases his farming on the rhythm of the moon to an obsessive prince who destroys his vineyards before his death so that his grapes will never be used incorrectly. Esposito’s luscious accounts of the wonderful food and wine that are so much a part of Italian life, and his poignant and often hilarious stories of his relationships with his family and Italian friends, make Passion on the Vine an utterly unique and enchanting work about Italy and its eternally seductive lifestyle.

Download or read book Passion and Order written by Carol Lansing and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way in which a society expresses grief can reveal how it views both intense emotions and public order. In thirteenth-century Italian communes, a conscious effort to change appropriate public reaction to death threw into sharp relief connections among urban politics, gender expectations, and understandings of emotionality. In Passion and Order, Carol Lansing explores a dramatic change in thinking and practice about emotional restraint. This shift was driven by politics and understood in terms of gender. Thirteenth-century court cases reveal that male elites were accustomed to mourning loudly and demonstratively at funerals. As many as a hundred men might gather in a town's streets and squares to weep and cry out, even tear at their beards and clothing. Yet these elites enacted laws against such emotional display and proceeded to pay the fines levied against themselves for violating their own legislation. Political theorists used gender norms to urge men to restrain their passions; histrionic grieving, like lust, was now considered "womanish." Lawmakers drew on a complex of gendered ideas about grief and public order to characterize governance in ways that linked the self and the state. They articulated their beliefs in terms of rules of decorum, how men and women need to behave in order to live together in society. Lansing demonstrates this change through a rich combination of sources: archival records from Orvieto, Bologna, and Perugia; political treatises; literary works, notably Petrarch's letters; and representations of grief in painting and sculpture.

Download or read book The Glorious Pasta of Italy written by Domenica Marchetti and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating pasta in all its glorious forms, author Domenica Marchetti draws from her Italian heritage to share 100 classic and modern recipes. Step-by-step instructions for making fresh pasta offer plenty of variations on the classic egg pasta, while a glossary of pasta shapes, a source list for unusual ingredients, and a handy guide for stocking the pantry with pasta essentials encourage the home cook to look beyond simple spaghetti. No matter how you sauce it, The Glorious Pasta of Italy is sure to have pasta lovers everywhere salivating.

Download or read book The Italian s Passionate Proposal Mills Boon Modern written by Sarah Morgan and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark, handsome and impossibly wealthy surgeon Carlo Santini can have any woman he wants. But working alongside nurse Suzannah Wilde at St. Catherine's hospital, it's hard for him to deny the sexual attraction simmering between them!

Download or read book Art and Love in Renaissance Italy written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2008 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance were made to celebrate love, marriage, and family. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from early in the era, of commemorating betrothals, marriages, and the birth of children by commissioning extraordinary objects - maiolica, glassware, jewels, textiles, paintings - that were often also exchanged as gifts. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of artworks arising from Renaissance rituals of love and marriage and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. The impressive range of works gathered in these pages extends from birth trays painted in the early fifteenth century to large canvases on mythological themes that Titian painted in the mid-1500s. Each work of art would have been recognized by contemporary viewers for its prescribed function within the private, domestic domain."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book The Italian s Passionate Revenge written by Lucy Gordon and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He will bed her… Elise Carlton is looking forward to having her freedom. Years as a trophy wife have left her wary. But there is one man to whom she is not immune…. For revenge and for pleasure! Vincente Farnese is rich and devastatingly handsome, his own special brand of dark Italian temptation! But it is no coincidence that Vincente has sought out Elise. What will she do when she discovers he wants her only for revenge?

Download or read book The Italian s Passion written by Joanne Walsh and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wealthy, incredibly sexy Italian entrepreneur Danilo Spinozzi zooms into Lucy Luxton’s life on a motorcycle one quiet afternoon, and she can’t keep her mind or eyes off him. The people of Ravello, a small town on the Amalfi Coast where she is studying jewelry design, warn her that he is the town’s bad boy and a ruthless womanizer, but how can Lucy keep her distance when he is the one man who looks beyond her shy, plump exterior and sees the sensuous and creative woman about to bloom? Devastated by the one woman in his life who should have loved and protected him, Danillo Spinozzi has had good reason to avoid long-term commitment. But after he takes one look at Lucy and basks in her kindness and unassuming, voluptuous beauty, he needs to make her his for more than a handful of nights. She’s a girl who deserves to be treated right, a tall order when he’s left a trail of broken female hearts behind. He’s going to have to do something he’s never done before—stay and woo her. Even though Lucy knows she’s due to return home to England at the end of August and that Danilo will move on to his next conquest, she can’t resist him… Or has Danilo really changed his ways for good?

Download or read book The Golden Dawn of Italian Fashion written by Rosanna Masiola and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book written about Maria Monaci Gallenga (1880-1944), the enigmatic fashion artist and designer marginalized after decades of fortune and fame. The daughter of Ernesto Monaci, the illustrious philologist and mentor of Luigi Pirandello, Gallenga was the wife of Pietro Gallenga, a medical scientist related to the Gallenga Stuart family. The text outlines Maria Monaci Gallenga’s impact on the world of fashion, contextualizing her work and that of other forgotten fashion designers in the 1920s and 1930s. It sheds light on her cultural impact and idealism as a business entrepreneur in Europe and America promoting Italian art and culture. It also highlights her engagement in social and educational activities after she retired from the world of fashion, and explains the reasons behind her marginalization and disappearance, and the obstacles and constraints she faced during the years of Fascism. The book also considers the influence of the British arts and crafts movement and the vision of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood on her aesthetic vision, and, in turn, investigates Maria Gallenga’s influence on late Pre-Raphaelite paintings (Frank Cadogan Cowper) inspired by her designs and fabrics. The discovery of her fabrics and accessories by the Fendi sisters in the collections of the Tirelli House eventually sparked a new interest in her models, now enhanced by digital media.

Download or read book The Italian s Secret Baby written by Lynne Graham and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two irresistible Italian tycoons prepare for the unexpected arrival of their heirs! The drama unfolds in this compelling reissue from Harlequin Presents reader-favourite authors! The Italian Billionaire's Pregnant Bride by Lynne Graham His baby, his bride…but his love isn't part of the bargain… Kathy waitresses by day and cleans by night, trying to escape the wrongs of her past. She's not remotely in the same class as impossibly rich, ruthless and handsome Sergio Torrente. And then one night at his London offices, Sergio notices Kathy's shapely form beneath her dowdy overalls and takes her virginity. Kathy thinks that will be the end of it—until she discovers she's pregnant with the Italian billionaire's baby! Sergio has found out about the secret that darkens Kathy's background. He doesn't believe her when she says she's innocent, but he is prepared to overlook what he thinks is her guilt. He may not be able to love her, but he will marry her and be a father to his child! Book 3 in Lynne Graham's The Rich, the Ruthless and the Really Handsome trilogy. Bedded for Passion, Purchased for Pregnancy by Carol Marinelli Bought for a million dollars… When Zarios D'Amilo meets Emma Hayes again, she is no longer the clumsy teenager who tried to kiss him, but a beautiful, confident woman. Now he wants her! Claimed for convenience… To claim his inheritance, this Italian playboy must curb his wild ways. He needs a convenient fiancée, and Emma needs a million dollars. So Zarios seizes his opportunity—he will have her! But passion soon leads to pregnancy. Suddenly, the stakes are higher…

Download or read book The Italian s Trophy Mistress written by Diana Hamilton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cesare Andriotti was powerful, rich, sexy—andalways got what he wanted. Beautiful Bianca Jaywas no exception, and though she hadn't beeneasy to win, he had finally made her his mistress.But Cesare realised he didn't know her—didn'tknow what made her tick, what went on behindthose hypnotically sensual amber eyes. Sheintrigued him so much he found himselfproposing—only to be turned down! And thatdetermined him to make the elusive Biancacompletely his—mind, body and soul….

Download or read book The Italian s Blackmailed Mistress written by Jacqueline Baird and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tycoon turns to blackmail for a second chance with the woman he loved in this classic contemporary romance by a USA Today bestseller. “You really expect me to sleep with you to pay my father’s debt?” Italian magnate Max Quintano knew exactly how to get his way . . . by blackmailing Sophie into becoming his mistress. “Sleep is not what I have in mind.” Sophie will do anything to prevent her family’s ruin—even if it means living in Max’s luxurious Venetian palazzo—and being beholden to him . . . and will be until she discovers exactly why he hates her so much. . . . Originally published in 2006.

Download or read book The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature written by Rinaldina Russell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-07-16 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 20 years, there has been an increasing interest in feminist views of the Italian literary tradition. While feminist theory and methodology have been accepted by the academic community in the U.S., the situation is very different in Italy, where such work has been done largely outside the academy. Among nonspecialists, knowledge of feminist approaches to Italian literature, and even of the existence of Italian women writers, remains scant. This reference work, the first of its kind on Italian literature, is a companion volume for all who wish to investigate Italian literary culture and writings, both by women and by men, in light of feminist theory. Included are alphabetically arranged entries for authors, schools, movements, genres and forms, figures and types, and similar topics related to Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and summarizes feminist thought on the subject. Entries provide brief bibliographies, and the volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography of major studies. This volume covers eight centuries of Italian literature, from the Middle Ages to the present. Included are entries for major canonical male authors, such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as for female writers such as Lucrezia Marinella and Gianna Manzini. These entries discuss how the authors have shaped the image of women in Italian literature and how feminist criticism has responded to their works. Entries are also provided for various schools and movements, such as deconstruction, Marxism, and new historicism; for genres and forms, such as the epic, devotional works, and misogynistic literature; for figures and types, such as the enchantress, the witch, and the shepherdess; and for numerous other topics. Each entry is written by an expert contributor, summarizes the relationship of the topic to feminist thought, and includes a brief bibliography. The volume closes with a selected general bibliography of major studies.

Download or read book The Half Sisters written by Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Italian s Passionate Proposal written by Sarah Morgan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-06-11 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passion, drama, and undeniable chemistry heat up the holidays for a midwife and a sexy doctor with a secret in this romance by a USA Today bestseller. Dark, handsome, and impossibly wealthy surgeon Carlo Santini can have any woman he wants. But working alongside nurse Suzannah Wilde at St. Catherine’s hospital, it’s hard for him to deny the sexual attraction simmering between them! Zan knows Carlo is holding something back from her, but all the same invites him to spend the festive season with her; only to discover that the caring baby doctor by day is a passionate, demanding lover by night. . . .