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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 ...
War-time love story set in Abyssinia, Eritrea and the Yemen 1935-1945. Amedeo Guillet is still alive and living in County Meath, Ireland. Khadija is lost ...
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 ...
Italy emerged from World War Two in ruins. Divided ...
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 ...
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 thrilling history of the unseen dark side of the Italian Renaissance
'Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of ...
'Clear, cool, plainly written and devastating' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Times Literary Supplement
A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale ...
MAFIA. CAMORRA. 'NDRANGHETA.The Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous criminal fraternity. The country hosts two other ...
The Italian Renaissance man's handbook, defining the virtues essential for a man of the Court
In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione ...
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 gripping story of ancient ...
A Daily Mail Book of the Week
The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history.
'A ...
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 ...
The Borgias have become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. An inspiration for many works of fiction, most famously Mario ...