Vineyard pests, featuring a flamethrower and early integrated pest management.

A late Renaissance bridge between philology and agronomy in this treatise on olive oil.

Visconti dukes, serpent emblems, and manuscript pages.

300 tiny woodcuts, a whole universe of human passion from the 16th century.

100 chromolithographic plates shimmering in gold and silver.

A milestone in seventeenth-century science, with vivid engravings of exotic naturalia.

Unlock the secrets of palm-reading and physiognomy… maybe.

Hot wine heals - or harms - on the path towards Enlightenment medicine.

A day in the life of a XVIII century stable master.

Italian Court Cuisine with centuries of character.

Setting the Table in Style: Massialot’s Culinary Optics.

Rhetoric Bound in Echoes: A Venetian Cicero in Recycled Parchment.

Stevenson’s Napa: Wine Before the Boom.

Erotic satire meets truffled tabarin, straight from 1920s Sicily.

The Many Evils of the Goblet: Wine as Villain in Enlightenment Italy.

Early praise for Sangiovese in Tuscany’s most practical farming manual.

The Roman art of vine care.