Italian Historical Biographies

The Borgias: History's Most Notorious Dynasty

By Mary Hollingsworth

Awfully Ancient: Gory Gladiators, Savage Centurions and Caesar's Sticky End: A menacing history of the unruly Romans!

By Tom Morgan-Jones, Kay Barnham

Sex Lives of the Popes

By Nigel Cawthorne

Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal

By Tim Parks