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House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival

By Ball, Deborah

The Memoir of Marco Parenti: A Life in Medici Florence

By Phillips, Mark Salber

SAS Italian Job: The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress

By Lewis, Damien

La Belle France: A Short History

By Horne, Sir Alistair

Italian Journey, 1786-1788

By Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Mayer, Elizabeth, Auden, W. H.

Don Vito and the Mafia: Living with My Father's Secrets: The Secret Life of the Mayor of the Corleonesi

By Massimo Ciancimino, Francesco La Licata

ON THE SPARTACUS ROAD: A Spectacular Journey through Ancient Italy

By Stothard

The Borgias: Power and Fortune

By Strathern, Paul

The Martyrdom of Perpetua: v. 2 (Visionary Women S.)

By Maitland, Sara

Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe

By Moorehead, Caroline

What a Bloody Awful Country: Northern Ireland’s century of division

By Kevin Meagher

Francis of Assisi

By Schnieper, Xavier, Stock, Dennis

Garibaldi And His Enemies: The Clash of Arms And Personalities in the Making of Italy

By Hibbert, Christopher

Carlo Ancelotti: The Beautiful Games of an Ordinary Genius

By Carlo Ancelotti, Alessandro Alciato

Extra Virgin: Amongst the Olive Groves of Liguria

By Hawes, Annie

A Venetian Affair: A true story of impossible love in the eighteenth century

By Andrea Di Robilant

Pietro's Book: The Story of a Tuscan Peasant

By Pietro Pinti, Jenny Bawtree

Mussolini

By Jasper Ridley

Charles V: The World Emperor

By Harald Kleinschmidt

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

The Story of My Life

By Gilberto Pizzamiglio, Giacomo Casanova, Sophie Hawkes, Stephen Sartarelli

Poets In A Landscape

By Gilbert Highet

When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy

By Christine Toomey

Little Book of Prada

By Laia Farran Graves

Fey's War: The True Story of a Mother, her Missing Sons and the Plot to Kill Hitler

By Catherine Bailey

The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome

By Harry Sidebottom

Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos

By Keith Lowe

The Italians (Large Print Edition)

By John Hooper

Dante

By Alessandro Barbero, Allan Cameron

In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

By Daisy Dunn