01823cam a2200337 4500 221973768 TxAuBib 20150622120000.0 130404s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013010708 9780393082418 hbk. 0393082415 hbk. (OCoLC)836748321 TxAuBib Edsel, Robert M. Saving Italy : the race to rescue a nation's treasures from the Nazis / Robert M. Edsel. 1st ed. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. xxii, 454 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-440) and index. When Hitler's armies occupied Italy in 1943, they also seized control of mankind's greatest cultural treasures. As they had done throughout Europe, the Nazis could now plunder the masterpieces of the Renaissance, the treasures of the Vatican, and the antiquities of the Roman Empire. In May 1944 two unlikely American heroes--artist Deane Keller and scholar Fred Hartt--embarked from Naples on the tresure hunt of a lifetime, tracking billions of dollars of missing art, including works by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli. 20150622. Keller, Deane, 1901-1992. Hartt, Frederick. Allied Forces Supreme Headquarters Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Section History. Art treasures in war Italy History 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 Art and the war. Art thefts Italy History 20th century. Cultural property Protection Italy History 20th century. TXLIV