List of Historical Novels - Italy

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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    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)

    I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.
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