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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 ...
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 ...
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The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history.
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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 ...
A master historian illuminates the tumultuous relationship of Il Duce and his young lover Claretta, whose extraordinarily intimate diaries only recently have become available
Few ...
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 ...
On the tenth anniversary of his rise to power in 1932, Mussolini seemed to many the "good dictator." He was the first totalitarian and the ...
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 ...
Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant
In 1870 an astonishing cache, containing ...
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 ...
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism ...
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 ...
