Here in Hatchards Italian history department, you'll find the very best books on everything from broad histories of Italy and the Italian Renaissance, to the experiences of those living under Mussolini's wartime rule.

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The Borgias
 
£12.99
Siena
 
£14.99
The Pursuit of Italy
 
£12.99
A Chill in the Air
 
£10.99
Sicily
 
£30.00
Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction
 
£8.99
A House in the Mountains
 
£9.99
The Last Leopard
 
£13.99
Italy Reborn
 
£35.00
The Medici
 
£14.99
The Italians
 
£10.99
The Florentines
 
£12.99
Edda Mussolini
 
£12.99
The Kingdom in the Sun, 1130-1194
 
£12.99
The Shortest History of Italy
 
£14.99
Blood and Power
 
£12.99
Brunelleschi's Dome
 
£12.99
The Day Of Battle
 
£16.99
Mussolini's Italy
 
£18.99
Italian Life
 
£10.99

Histories of Italy

  • The Pursuit of Italy
    The Pursuit of Italy
    David Gilmour
    £12.99
    Explaining the extraordinary course of Italian history, this book traces the history of the Italian peninsula and gives ... See more
    Explaining the extraordinary course of Italian history, this book traces the history of the Italian peninsula and gives a clear-eyed view of the Risorgimento, the pivotal event in modern Ita... See more
  • The Italians
    The Italians
    John Hooper
    £10.99
    A spry, wickedly affectionate and exhaustively researched field guide to the complex and contrary Italian population. Ta... See more
    A spry, wickedly affectionate and exhaustively researched field guide to the complex and contrary Italian population. Tackling stereotypes and sacred cows head on, Hooper analyses everything... See more
  • A Brief History of Italy
    A Brief History of Italy
    Jeremy Black
    £10.99
    A concise and very readable history of what we know today as Italy, from prehistory right up to the present day. See more
    A concise and very readable history of what we know today as Italy, from prehistory right up to the present day. See more
  • A Concise History of Italy
    A Concise History of Italy
    Christopher Duggan
    £22.99
    Since its formation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national... See more
    Since its formation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. This new edition of Christopher Duggan's acclaimed introduc... See more
  • The Force of Destiny
    The Force of Destiny
    Christopher Duggan
    £18.99
    The greatness of Italy's culture and way of life have had a powerful attraction for many generations of visitors. This b... See more
    The greatness of Italy's culture and way of life have had a powerful attraction for many generations of visitors. This book while sharing everyone's enthusiasm for Italy as a place, distingu... See more

The Italian Renaissance

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The Borgias
 
£12.99
Princes of the Renaissance
 
£35.00
The Florentines
 
£20.00
The Bookseller of Florence
 
£25.00
Studies in the History of the Renaissance
 
£9.99
The Medici
 
£20.00
The Book of the Courtier
 
£12.99
The Italian Renaissance
 
£17.99
Tigress Of Forli
 
£9.99
Out of Italy
 
£12.99
The Deadly Sisterhood
 
£12.99
Brunelleschi's Dome
 
£12.99
The Medici
 
£14.99
The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior
 
£16.99
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
 
£12.99
Isabella de'Medici
 
£12.99

The Cities of Italy

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Ravenna
 
£16.99
Sicily
 
£14.99
Venice
 
£10.99
The Merchant of Prato
 
£10.99
The Invention of Sicily
 
£16.99
The Black Prince of Florence
 
£12.99
Rome
 
£16.99
Be Like the Fox
 
£10.99
Rome
 
£12.99
Rome
 
£22.00
Venice
 
£18.99
Florence
 
£25.00
Italian Venice
 
£18.99
City of Fortune
 
£12.99

Italy & the Second World War

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Mussolini's War
 
£16.99
War in Val d'Orcia
 
£12.99
A House in the Mountains
 
£9.99
Fascist Voices
 
£14.99
Love and War in the Apennines
 
£10.99
Sicily '43
 
£12.99
Naples '44
 
£12.99
Mussolini's Italy
 
£18.99
Italy’s Sorrow
 
£16.99
A Bold and Dangerous Family
 
£9.99

Art of the Italian Renaissance

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Veronese
 
£35.00
A New History of Italian Renaissance Art
 
£50.00
Tiepolo Pink
 
£14.99
The Renaissance Complete
 
£30.00
The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy
 
£55.00
Michelangelo & Sebastiano
 
£35.00
What Great Paintings Say. Italian Renaissance
 
£15.00
Art and Architecture in Italy, 1250-1400
 
£35.00
Italian Renaissance Courts
 
£19.95
The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance
 
£45.00
Art of Renaissance Florence
 
£35.00
Renaissance Art in Venice
 
£19.95
The Italian Renaissance
 
£17.99
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance
 
£30.99

Italian Travel Writing

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A Small Place in Italy
 
£10.99
Trieste
 
£10.99
A Month in Siena
 
£10.99
The Land Where Lemons Grow
 
£10.99
Pictures from Italy
 
£11.99
Midnight in Sicily
 
£10.99
Venice
 
£10.99
The Hero's Way
 
£20.00
Italian Ways
 
£9.99
Italian Hours
 
£10.99
Microcosms
 
£10.99
An Elephant in Rome
 
£19.99
Italian Journey 1786-1788
 
£12.99
In Sicily
 
£12.99
Four Seasons in Rome
 
£9.99
Gironimo!
 
£10.99
Hemingway in Italy
 
£9.99
A Time in Rome
 
£10.99
The Dark Heart of Italy
 
£12.99
D. H. Lawrence and Italy
 
£14.99

Italian Literature

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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
 
£9.99
Three Summers
 
£9.99
The Leopard
 
£9.99
Christ Stopped at Eboli
 
£9.99
The Name of the Rose
 
£10.99
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
 
£9.99
Arturo's Island
 
£10.99
Zeno's Conscience
 
£16.99
The Betrothed
 
£12.99
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I
 
£18.99
Tales from the Decameron
 
£9.99
Last Summer in the City
 
£14.99
Silk
 
£8.99