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A brilliant new history of the city, told through the lens of its popes. In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its ...
A major new account of the emergence of Italian democracy after the Second World War
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At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody ...