Italy
- A Struggle for Rome (Ein Kampf um Rom) by Felix Dahn (Gothic War (535-554))
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (14th century)
- Lucrezia Borgia by John Faunce (biographical novel, Renaissance)* Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabarger (Renaissance)
- Romola by George Eliot (Renaissance)
- Caravaggio by Christopher Peachment (16th and 17th century)
- The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni (17th century)
- The Castrato by Louis Goldman (18th century)
- A Kiss from Maddalena by Christopher Castellani (World War II)
- A Tabernacle for the Sun by Linda Proud (Florence, 1470s)
- Pallas and the Centaur by Linda Proud (Florence, 1480s)
- The Rebirth of Venus by Linda Proud (Florence, 1490s)
- Silk by Alessandro Baricco (1860s)
- Raptor by Gary Jennings
- The Family by Mario Puzo (Renaissance)
- The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant (Florence, Savonarola period)
- La Cruz y el Lirio Dorado by Fernando Fernán-Gómez (Pazzi conspiracy)
- Soportal de los malos pensamientos by Juan Antonio de Blas (Spanish conspiration against Venice known in Italy as 'Congiura di Bedmar' and in Spain as 'La conjuración de Venecia')
- Q (1999) by Luther Blissett; set in 15th century Europe during the Protestant reformation and German Peasants' War
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Famous quotes containing the word italy:
“For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery—back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“Uncle Matthew’s four years in France and Italy between 1914 and 1918 had given him no great opinion of foreigners. “Frogs,” he would say, “are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.””
—Nancy Mitford (1904–1973)
“When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)