Traces the history of Italy from the Roman Empire to the present, and examines the connections between Italian society, politics, and culture.

Traces the history of Italy from the Roman Empire to the present, and examines the connections between Italian society, politics, and culture.

Traces the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon poetry to the present day.

The story of the 'long Renaissance' for a new generation from Giotto and Dante in thirteenth-century Italy to the English literary Renaissance in the first half