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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“Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)