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Eighty years after the fall of Benito Mussolini, controversy remains about what his dictatorship represented. This reflects the different sides to the Duce's leadership ...
The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces ...
An authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy.
Occupying a hilltop site in the ...
Filled with discoveries, this is the dramatic story of Pope Pius XII's struggle to respond to the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the ...
A thrilling biography of Edda Mussolini - Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter - and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist dream in Italy, from ...
A captivating journey along the iconic River Po and through Italian history, society and culture.
'Delightful... A wonderful cornucopia of history' TLS
'Uncovers the Po ...
'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy - and brutality' Telegraph
'Likely to become the standard work ...
A gripping story of ancient wisdom, new technology and 'the king of the world's booksellers', set in Renaissance Florence
'A marvel of storytelling and ...
A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch
"The excellence of Leo Damrosch's energetic biography is that it ...
A New Statesman Book of the Year
"Reveals how ideology corrupts the truth, how untrammeled ambition destroys the soul, and how the vanity of white ...
The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro, humanist, book-collector ...
An illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important patrons - the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states.
'Exceptionally sumptuous ...
Sicily has always acted as a gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Fought over by the Phoenicians and Greeks, the Romans, Goths ...
While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the ...
An unexpected journey through Italy, led by the voice of a violin
From the moment she hears Lev's violin for the first time, Helena ...
