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Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized Western civilization. Painting, sculpture and architecture ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
