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An instant bestseller in Italy, Corrado Augias's latest work sets out to rediscover the story - different from the history - of this country. Beginning with ...
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 Borgias have become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. An inspiration for many works of fiction, most famously Mario ...
Fascist Voices is a fresh and disturbing look at a country in thrall to a charismatic dictator. Tracing fascism from its conception to its legacy ...
The Spirit of Venice is a history of the first great economic and naval power of the modern Western world, from its struggle to ascendancy ...
This revelatory account of how the Vatican saved thousands of Jews during the Second World War shows why history must re-assess 'Hitler's Pope'. Accused ...
Between her birth in 1463 as the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, to her death in 1509 as a member of the powerful ...
Renowned historian John Julius Norwich's classic history of Venice - with a fresh new cover look
Intricate, captivating, beautiful, romantic, unique, unforgettable . . .
A History of ...
A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012
Almost six hundred years ...
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 ...
In the 1380s and 90s, Nicolo and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly ...
The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of ...
Lorenzo de' Medici: The embodiment of Florence's most powerful family, a brutal man who ruled the city with an iron fist, whilst protecting it ...