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        Vajont

        Vajont

        Vajont

        The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster

        by Marco Armiero

        ISBN: 9780262053013

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 28, 2026

        The sobering political implications of a disaster—the Vajont landslide in Italy in 1963—and how it speaks directly to our present environmental crisis.
        All the King’s Horses

        All the King’s Horses

        All the King’s Horses

        Vitruvius in an Age of Princes

        by Indra Kagis McEwen

        ISBN: 9780262047616

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 11, 2023

        How the Italian Renaissance reinvented the power of princes by rediscovering Vitruvius and his architecture—and justified their right to rule.
        Mussolini’s Nature

        Mussolini's Nature

        Mussolini's Nature

        An Environmental History of Italian Fascism

        by Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg

        Translated by James Sievert

        ISBN: 9780262544719

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 13, 2022

        This exploration of the environmental practices of Benito Mussolini's fascist regime invites readers to consider the ecological connections of all political projects.
        Some Reasons for Traveling to Italy

        Some Reasons for Traveling to Italy

        Some Reasons for Traveling to Italy

        by Peter Wilson

        ISBN: 9780262047265

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 6, 2022

        An idiosyncratic guidebook to architectural (and other) wonders of Italy, accompanied by the author's own witty illustrations.
        Piranesi and the Modern Age

        Piranesi and the Modern Age

        Piranesi and the Modern Age

        by Victor Plahte Tschudi

        ISBN: 9780262047173

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 1, 2022

        The complex appropriation of Piranesi by modern literature, photography, art, film, and architecture.
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