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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 ...
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 ...
