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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017
'Expertly alternating vivid domestic detail with lucid exposition of the gradual evolution of totalitarianism, Caroline Moorehead allows her ...
'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his sights to Sicily in this ...
A sparkling history of Italy from the post-war to the present by renowned historian John Foot
Italy emerged from the Second World War in ruins ...
This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest historical portraits written in the ...
In February 1937, following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolini's High Command in Italian-occupied Ethiopia, 'repression squads' of armed Blackshirts ...
Of all Italian cities, Florence has always had the strongest English accent: the Goncourt brothers in 1855 called it 'ville tout anglaise'. Though that accent ...
Despite the Roman Empire's famous 500-year reign over Europe, parts of Africa and the Middle East, Italy does not have the same long national ...
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 ...
The history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in ...
Andrew Leach's Rome is the first book in Polity's exciting new `Cities in World History' series, which aims to provide the general reader ...
'Hooper has written a fascinating, affectionate and well-researched study that delivers the tantalising flavour of a country as hot, cold, bitter and sweet as an ...
In the tradition of big-picture histories, The Day The Renaissance Was Saved shows how a single moment triggered the birth of the Renaissance. When the ...
The fascinating portrait of the ultimate Renaissance woman: Caterina Sforza, the Tigress of Forli. Botticelli painted her, Machiavelli slandered her. She led troops into battle ...
In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice-not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and ...
'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The author of the classic book on Venice turns his sights to Sicily in this ...
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