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:
“When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“the San Marco Library,
Whence turbulent Italy should draw
Delight in Art whose end is peace,
In logic and in natural law
By sucking at the dugs of Greece.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)