History lover? Four half-price 'easy Italian reader' ebooks!

Over at OnlineItalianClub.com, they’ve started their 30-part Summer Series of articles about Italian history.

During previous summers they published thirty articles with audio on the Roman empire, another thirty on the Middle Ages, and thirty more on the Renaissance period and the years up as far as the Garibaldi and the the Risorgimento. So ninety FREE articles, with audio! Lucky club members.

Their new series covers the period from the Risorgimento (the meaning of which is explained in the first article) to the end of WWII. Next year they’ll cover the decades from WWII up to the end of the 20th century.

So in the end, there’ll be 150 free articles with audio, walking curious students of Italian through nearly three millennia, from the mystical origins of Rome to the rather-less-triumphant Berlusconi years…

You can access everything published so far on the club’s history page, no registration required. New episodes will be published each Monday, Wednesday and Friday until the Summer Series ends in September.

Costs for the club’s Summer Series are met by recycling the FREE material from the website as ebooks, which some might find more convenient. The ebook versions can easily be printed, for instance, and there are Kindle and .epub versions available to those who ask.

So anyway, this week for our half-price ebook offer, we’re discounting four Italian easy readers for history lovers: the first three years’ Summer Series, plus a story about Garibaldi, as background to the new one.

Get any or all of them for just £4.99 each, until Sunday 16th July.

And yes, the half-price ‘eBook of the Week’ offers used to cost £3.99. But we’ve put our ‘easy reader’ ebook prices up, from £7.99 to £9.99, so half-price is now £4.99.

Check the FREE sample chapters (linked to below). If the material is too easy or too difficult for you, browse our Catalog page to find something more appropriate to your level.

La storia di Roma

The ebook version of a thirty-part series of articles with online audio that walks a curious student of Italian through over a thousand years of history, from the mystical founding of Rome in or around 753 BCE to the end of the empire in 476 CE.

While the articles that make up this ebook are available for free at https://onlineitalianclub.com/history/, this version of the material (.pdf, .mobi Kindle-compatible, .epub versions available) is easily printable and/or readable on an ebook reader, such as the Kindle.

Please note: unlike our other ‘easy reader’ ebooks, for reasons of length this one does not contain glossaries of difficult words nor comprehension exercises after each chapter. Take a look at the free sample chapters before you buy!

.pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
.mobi (Kindle-compatible) and .epub (other ebook readers) available on request at no extra charge – just add a note to the order form or email us
30 CHAPTERS to read and listen to, over ninety pages!
Suitable for students at upper-intermediate level or above
Download your Free Sample Chapters (.pdf)

Buy La storia di Roma just £4.99 | FREE sample chapter (.pdf) | Catalog

Il Medioevo

The ebook version of a thirty-part series of articles with online audio that walks a curious student of Italian through a neglected period of history, from the end of the Roman empire in 476 CE to the fall of Constantinople, nearly a thousand years later in 1453 CE.

.pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
.mobi (Kindle-compatible) and .epub (other ebook readers) available on request at no extra charge – just add a note to the order form or email us
30 CHAPTERS to read and listen to!
Suitable for students at upper-intermediate level or above
Download your Free Sample Chapters (.pdf)

Buy Il Medioevo just £4.99 | FREE sample chapter (.pdf) | Catalog

Il Rinascimento

This ebook version of a thirty-part series of articles with online audio walks a curious student of Italian through thirty chapters of history and covers, in outline, the intellectual and political changes on the Italian peninsula during the Renaissance period and after (from the 15th to 19th centuries).

.pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
.mobi (Kindle-compatible) and .epub (other ebook readers) available on request at no extra charge – just add a note to the order form or email us
30 CHAPTERS to read and listen to!
Suitable for students at intermediate level or above
Download your Free Sample Chapters (.pdf)

Buy Il Rinascimento just £4.99 | FREE sample chapter (.pdf) | Catalog

Garibaldi sul ‘Piemonte’

Nel 1860 l’Italia non è ancora un unico paese: è divisa in piccoli stati che vengono costantemente attaccati e invasi dalle grandi potenze europee. In questo periodo il sud Italia, dalla Sicilia a Napoli, è occupato dai Borboni. Ed è proprio da qui che il marinaio genovese rivoluzionario e repubblicano Garibaldi e mille volontari (“garibaldini”) spinti dallo spirito patriottico e dall’amore per la libertà, iniziano l’opera di liberazione e unificazione del paese.

“Voi sapete che questa riunione è segreta, giusto? Non potete dire niente a nessuno, ci siamo capiti?!” chiede ansiosamente Raffaele Rubattino, il grande costruttore e proprietario di navi ai tre uomini presenti. Poi si alza dalla sedia e si stropiccia la faccia con la mano.

“Oh mio Dio, cosa sto facendo!” dice Rubattino ridendo nervosamente. Garibaldi, seduto su una sedia di legno, lo guarda con un sorriso sereno, si gratta la barba bionda, si passa una mano fra i capelli lunghi e pettinati all’indietro e poi nasconde le braccia nel suo poncho. Alle sue spalle stanno in piedi Pasquale e Pietro, due garibaldini che lo hanno accompagnato all’incontro. Entrambi sono venditori del mercato, abituati a fare affari, ma questa volta non si tratta di vendere frutta e formaggi!

Garibaldi, che fino a quel momento è rimasto in silenzio, prende la parola con il suo tono autoritario e calmo: “Vi ripeto il piano, signor Rubattino. I vostri lavoratori lasceranno le due navi, che chiameremo il Piemonte e il Lombardo, giù nel porto. Poi i miei uomini le prenderanno. Sembrerà un furto, e con le navi rubate partiremo da Quar…”

.pdf e-book (+ audio available free online)
.mobi (Kindle-compatible) and .epub (other ebook readers) available on request at no extra charge – just add a note to the order form or email us
8 chapters to read and listen to
Comprehension questions to check your understanding
Italian/English glossary of ‘difficult’ terms for the level
Suitable for students at intermediate level or above
Download your Free Sample Chapter (.pdf)

Buy Garibaldi sul ‘Piemonte’ just £4.99 | FREE sample chapter (.pdf) | Catalog

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