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An incisive account of how Mussolini pioneered populism in reaction to Hitler's rise-and thereby reinforced his role as a model for later authoritarian leaders ...
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which transformed the entire culture of western civilisation. Painting ...
An imaginative and revelatory new history of the Italian Renaissance that challenges our preconceptions of the era
A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 ...
A gripping story of ancient wisdom, new technology and 'the king of the world's booksellers', set in Renaissance Florence
A gripping story of ancient ...
An epic cultural journey that reveals how Venetian ingenuity and inventions-from sunglasses and forks to bonds and currency-shaped modernity.
How did a small, isolated city-with ...
In his last days, Mussolini, the tyrant, was in the grip of anger, shame, and depression. The German armed forces that had sustained his puppet ...
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Village of Secrets, comes the extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance during WW2 ...
Myths and rumour have shrouded the Borgia family for centuries - tales of incest, intrigue and murder have been told of them since they themselves walked ...
A Daily Mail Book of the Week
The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history.
'A ...
Winner of the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize
Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies
A New Statesman Book of ...
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 ...
A thrilling history of the unseen dark side of the Italian Renaissance
'Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of ...
Between her birth in 1463 as the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, to her death in 1509 as a member of the powerful ...
A sparkling history of Italy from the post-war to the present by renowned historian John Foot
Italy emerged from the Second World War in ruins ...
