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  • Rome: Eternal City by

    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 ...

    5+ in stock - ships Mon 25th!
  • Leonardo da Vinci by

    The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in ...

    1 in stock - ships Mon 25th!
  • La Passione: How Italy Seduced the World by

    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 ...

    due for release Apr 2019
  • Sicily: A Short History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra by

    '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 ...

    1 in stock - ships Mon 25th!
  • The Art of the City: Rome, Florence, Venice by

    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 ...

    1 in stock - ships Mon 25th!
  • The Archipelago by
    1 in stock - ships Mon 25th!
  • Florence: A Traveller's Reader by

    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 ...

    1 in stock - ships Mon 25th!
  • The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy's National Shame by

    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 ...

    1 in stock - ships Mon 25th!
  • The Italians by

    Sublime yet exasperating, fascinating yet baffling, Italy is a country of riddles. Looking beyond the stereotypes, John Hooper's entertaining and incisive account of its ...

    1 in stock - ships Mon 25th!
  • The Book of the Courtier by

    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 ...

    1 in stock - ships Mon 25th!
  • The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by

    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 ...

    1 in stock - ships Mon 25th!
  • The Medici by

    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 ...

    on order
  • A Brief History of Italy by

    'Jeremy Black skilfully sketches social, cultural and political trends' - Christina Hardyment, Times audiobook of the week

    'A remarkable mixture of cold history, wide culture and ...

    on order
  • Leonardo da Vinci by

    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 ...

    call for availability
  • The Medici by

    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 ...

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