The Pursuit of Italy

by David Gilmour

Book Overview

The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English

The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal experience, and peopled by many of the great figures of the Italian past, from Cicero and Virgil to Dante and the Medici, from Cavour and Verdi to the controversial political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141043415
• ISBN13: 9780141043418
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.8"