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In the 1380s and 90s, Nicolo and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly ...
The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of ...
Lorenzo de' Medici: The embodiment of Florence's most powerful family, a brutal man who ruled the city with an iron fist, whilst protecting it ...
A magisterial work of gripping history, "City of Fortune" tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the ...
In the 14th century, Nicolo and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly, reaching ...
In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a very different ...
Orphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune. Married at fourteen to the future Henri II of ...
Theodoric possessed great talents both for war and peace; in the former he was always conqueror, and in the latter he conferred very great benefits ...
War-time love story set in Abyssinia, Eritrea and the Yemen 1935-1945. Amedeo Guillet is still alive and living in County Meath, Ireland. Khadija is lost ...
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In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated ...
The Italian Renaissance man's handbook, defining the virtues essential for a man of the Court
In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione ...
A fascinating description of the beginning of the modern world
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning ...
