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Based on thousands of pages from Leonardos astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his ...
'Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance...an excellent book... She depicts a tragic fate that is ...
The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. But ...
What makes Italian passion so undeniably unique? Dianne Hales unspools the answer to this question with gusto in La Passione- How Italy Seduced the World ...
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 ...
`An enjoyable, highly readable history that manages to bring murky, often fiendishly complex events into the light' Sunday Times
Italy emerged from the Second World ...
A fresh telling of the rise and fall of the House of Medici, the family that dominated political and cultural life in Florence for three ...
In 1870 an astonishing cache, containing some 150,000 letters and great numbers of business documents, came to light. Iris Origo drew on this material ...
Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy is a country of endless paradox and seemingly unanswerable riddles.
John Hooper's marvellously entertaining and perceptive book ...
In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those ...
The fascinating portrait of the ultimate Renaissance woman: Caterina Sforza, the Tigress of Forli.
Between her birth in 1463 as the illegitimate daughter of the ...
These brilliant essays, from one of Germany's greatest and most influential thinkers, are beautifully written and highly readable portraits of three Italian cities: Rome ...
A portrait of the city at the heart of Western civilization, brought to life in twenty-two scenes from its 2,500-year history.
The sweeping story ...
