Italian and Roman Literature and History

From Dante, Ariosto and Boccaccio to Casanova, Cellini, Maciavelli, and Tasso; from Julius Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil to Apuleius and Marcus Arelius; from Plutarch to Gibbon and Mommsen, this CD contains the full text of 474 books -- literature and history from and about Italy and Rome, sometimes in the original Italian and Latin, and sometimes in English translation. Major sections include: Context of the Contemporary World, Italian Literature, Latin/Roman Literature, General Histories of Ancient Rome, Italian History, and Historical Novels About Ancient Rome.

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books (except for the World Factbook) are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

Table of Contents:

Context of the contemporary world

• The 2009 CIA World Factbook.  With maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world  this is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.

• Country list
• Other files

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Italian and Latin Language

• First Italian Radings edited by Benjamin Lester Bowen
• Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. D'Ooge
• New Latin Grammar by Charles E. Bennett

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Italian Literature

 

Collections and Criticism

• Modern Italian Poets by W.D. Howells
• Italian Stories
• A Great Day by Edmondo de Amicis
• College Friends by Edmondo de Amicis
• Pereat Rochus by Antonio Fogazzaro
• San Pantaleone by Gabriele d'Annunzio
• It Snows by Enrico Castelnuovo
• The Palace of Pleasure (Elizabethan Versions of Italian and French Novels) translated by William Painter, volume 1
• Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. Henderson
• Stories from the Italian Poets with Lives of the Writers by Leigh Hunt
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Stray Studies from Engalnd and Italy by John Richard Green

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Giuseppe Cesare Abba

• Le Rive della Bormida nel 1974

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Camillo Agrippa (16th century)

• Dialogo sopra la gneratione de venti, tuoni, fulgori, fiumi, laghi, valli et montagne

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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Il Convito (The Banquet) translated by Elizabeth Sayer

La Divina Commedia, in Italian

In English translation:

translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Divine Comedy

translated by the Rev. H.F. Cary -- The Vision or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise

translated by Charles Eliot Norton

Hell

Purgatory

Paradise

In German translation

Die Goetliche Komoedie

about Dante

Dante: His Times and His Work by Arthur John Butler

Dante: The Central Man of All the World by John Slattery, 1920

Il Comento Alla Divina Commedia e Gli Altri Scitti Intorno a Dante by Boccaccio, in Italian

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Edmondo de Amicis (1846-1908

• Cuore (Heart), an Italian Schoolboyo's Journal, in english
• Ricordi di Parigi, in Italian
• Ricordi di Londra, in Italian
• Speranze e Glorie, 1911, in Italian

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Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)

• Orlando Furioso, in Italian
• Orlando Furioso, in English

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Cletto Arrighi

• Nana a Milano, in Italian

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Avancinio Avancini

• Novelle Lombarde

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Ida Baccini

• Lezioni e Racconti per i Bambini

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Eugenio Barbarich

• La Campagna del 1796 nel Veneto, in Italian

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Anton Giulio Barrili (1836-1908)

• Castel Gavone, Storia del Secolo XV
• Galatea, in Italian
• La Notte del Commendatore, in Italian
• L'Olmo e L'Edera, volume 1, in Italian
• Ritratto del Diavolo, in Italian

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Domenico Basile

• Il Pastor Fido (in lingua Napolitana)

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Ambrogio Bazzero

• Ugo, in Italian
• Storia di un'Anima, in Italian

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Giambattista Bazzoni

• Falco Della Rupe o La Buerra di Musso, Racconto Storico

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G. Berchet

• Opere, volume 2, in Italian

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Vittorio Bersezio

• La Carita del Prossimo, in Italian

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Paolo Bettoni

• Tre Racconti Sentimentali, in Italian

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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1350)

• Il Comento Alla Divina Commedia e Gli Altri Scitti Intorno a Dante by Boccaccio, in Italian
• The Decameron, translated by J. M. Rigg
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• La Fiammetta, translated by James C. Brogan, 1907

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Alberto Boccardi (1854-1921)

• Il Peccato di Loreta, in Italian

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Arrigo Boito (1842-1918)

• Novelle e riviste drammatiche, in Italian

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Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)

• The Heroic Enthusiasts, an Ethical Poem, translated by L. Williams
• part 1
• part 2
• Giordano Bruno by Walter Pater (short)

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Michael Angelo Buonarroti (1475-1567)

• The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Bunarroti and Tommaso Campanella, translated by John Symonds

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Enrico Annibale Butti (1868-1912)

• L'Immorale, in Italian

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Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639)

• The City of the Sun
• The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Bunarroti and Tommaso Campanella, translated by John Symonds

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Cesare Cantu (1804-1895)

• Margherita Pusterla
• Il Sacro Macello di Valtellina
• in Italian with accents
• in Italian without accents

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Luigi Capuana

• Cardello, in Italian
• Gli "Ismi" Contemporanei, in Italian
• Il Benefattore, in Italian
• Il Processo e l'Assoluzione di "Mafarka il Futurista", in Italian
• Rassegnaziione, in Italian

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Giulio Carcano

• Damiano, Storia d'Una Povera Famiglia, in Italian

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Enrico Caruso

• Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing (wtih Luisa Tetrazzini)

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Jacques Casanova de Seingault (1725-1798)

• Memoirs, the unabridged London edition of 1894, translated to English by Arthur Machen, to which has been added the chapters discovered by Arthur Symons; originally written in French, although the author was Italian
• Volume 1 -- Venetian Years
• Volume 1a -- Childhood
• Volume 1b -- A Cleric in Naples
• Volume 1c -- Military Career
• Volume 1d -- Return to Venice
• Volume 1e -- Milan and Mantua
• Volume 2 -- To Paris and Prison
• Volume 2a -- Paris
• Volume 2b -- Venice
• Volume 2c -- Convent Affairs
• Volume 2d -- The False Nun
• Volume 2e -- Under the Leads
• Volume 3 -- The Eternal Quest
• Volume 3a -- Paris and Holland
• Volume 3b -- Return to Paris
• Volume 3c -- Holland and Germany
• Volume 3d -- Switzerland
• Volume 3e -- With Voltaire
• Volume 4 -- Adventures in the South
• Volume 4a -- Depart Switzerland
• Volume 4b -- Return to Italy
• Volume 4c -- Return to Naples
• Volume 4d -- Back Again to Paris
• Volume 4e -- Milan
• Volume 5 -- In London and Moscow
• Volume 5a -- South of France
• Volume 5b -- To London
• Volume 5c -- The English
• Volume 5d -- London to Berlin
• Volume 5e -- Russia and Poland
• Volume 6 -- Spanish Passions
• Volume 6a -- Spain
• Volume 6b -- Expelled from Spain
• Volume 6c -- Rome
• Volume 6d -- Florence to Trieste
• Volume 6e -- Old Age and Death
• about Casanova
• Arthur Schnitzler -- Casanova's Homecoming

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Enrico Castelnuovo

• Il Fallo d'una Donna Onesta

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Baldessar Castilio

• The Book of the Courtier, translated by Thomas Hoby, 1561

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Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)

• Autobiography

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C. Collodi

• Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet

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La Marchesa Colombi

• Senz' Amore
• Tempesta e Bonaccia

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Cordelia

• Piccoli Eroi, in Italian

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Gabriele D'Annunzio

• Isaotta Guttadauro ed Altre Poese, in Italian

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Salvatore Farina (1846-1918)

• Amore Bendato, in Italian
• Carta Bollata, in Italian, 1894
• Due Amori, in Italian, 1869
• Fante di Picche, in Italian, 1874

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Antonio Fogazzaro

• Il Mistero del Poeta, in Italian

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Ferdinando Fontana (1850-1919)

• Nabuco, in Italian
• Poesie e Novelle in Versi, 1877, in Italian

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Frederico Frezzi (1346? - 1416)

• Il Quadriregio

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Giuseppe Garibaldi

• Cantoni il Volntario, Romanzo Storico, in Italian
• Clelia: il governo dei preti: romanzo storico politico, in Italian

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Petruccelli Della Gattina

• I Suicidi di Parigi, in Italian
• Il Re Prega, in Italian

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Anna Vertua Gentile

• Il Romanzo d'Una Signorina per Bene, in Italian

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A. Ghislanzoni

• In Chiave de Baritono (Storiella allegra) (storia de Milano dal 1836 al 1848), in Italian
• Libro Allegro, in Italian
• Libro Proibito, in Italian
• Libro Serio, in Italian

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Giuseppe Giacosa

• Come le Foglie, Commedia in Quuattro Atti, in Italian

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Carlo Gozzi

• La Marfisa Bizzarra, in Italian

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Luigi Gualdo

• Gran Rivale
• Le Nostalgie

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Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi (1804-1873)

• :Lo Assedio di Roma, 1864
• La Battaglia di Benevento, Storia del Secolo XIII, 1852
• Beatrice Cenci, Storia del Secolo XVI
• I Nuovi Tartufi, Racconto, 1847
• La Serpicina, 1847

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Tommasina Guidi

• Riconciliazione

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Nicola Francesco Haym (1678-1729

• Amadis of Gaul, opera, in Italian

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Carolina Invernizio

• La Trovatella di Milano

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Giacomo Leopardi

• The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi, translatedb y Frederick Townsend, 1887

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Gianpietro Lucini

• Il Libro Delle Figurazioni Ideali

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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

• The Art of War
• Description of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino in Murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di Gravia Orsini, translated to English by W.K. Marriott (short)
• History of Florence, in English
• The Life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca, translated to English by W.K. Marriott (short)
• The Prince, translated to English by W.K. Marriott

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Emilio de Marchi

• Col Fuoco Non Si Scherza
• Vecchie Cadenze e Nuove
• Vecchi Storie, without accents

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F.T. Martinetti

• L'Aeroplano del Papa

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Memini (1849-1899?)

• Mia, Romanzo Milano, 1884

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Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)

• L'Endimione

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Michaelangelo

• Gedichte und Briefe, translated to German by R.A. Guardini

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Cesare Monteverde

• I Demagoghi o i Misteri di Livorno,

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Virginia Mulazzi

• La Pergamena Distrutta, in Italian

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Neera (1846-1918)

• L'Amuleto, in Italian
• L'Indomani, in Italian
• El Sogno, in Italian

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Angiolo Silvio Novaro

• La Rovina, 1897, in Italian

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Alfredo Oriani

• La Disfatta, in Italian
• Fino a Dogali, in Italian
• Olocausto, in Italilan

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Silvio Pellico

• Poesie Inedite, in Italian
• volume 1
• volume 2

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Emma Perodi

• Il Principe della Marsiliana, in Italian

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Petrarch

• The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems, translated into English verse

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Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina (1815-1890)

• I moribondi del Palazzo Carignano

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Giulio Piccini (AKA Jarro)

• La Principessa, in Italian

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Luigi Pirandello

• Enrico IV, in Italian
• Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore, in Italian
• Six Characters in Search of an Author, translated by Edward Storer

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R.A. Porati

• Una Notte Fatale, in Italian

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Giambattista della Porta (1535? - 1615)

• Lo Astrologo, in Italian
• Gli Duoi Fratelli Rivali, in Italian
• La Carbonaria, in Italian
• La Cintia, in Italian
• L'Olimpia, in Italian
• La Sorella, in Italian
• La Taernaria, in Italian

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Ernesto Pozzi (1843-1904)

• Mentana e il dito di Dio

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Marco Praga

• La Crisi, Commedia in Tre Atti, 1907, in Italian

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Mario Rapisardi

• Africa Orrenda, versi, in Italian
• Lucifero, poema, in Italian

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F. de Roberto

• Documenti Umani, 1888, in Italian
• Ermanno Raeli, 1889, in Italian
• Spasimo, 1897, in Italian

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Adolfo Rossi

• Nel Paese dei Dollari (Tre Anni a New-York), in Italian

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Giuseppe Rovani (1818-1874)

• I Francesi e gli Sforzeschi, 1877, in Italian
• Valenzia Candiano, 1844, in Italian

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Gerolamo Rovetta (1854-1910)

• Ninnoli, in Italian
• Il Tenente dei Lancieri, 1916, in Italian
• Tiranni Minimi, in Italian

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Emilio Salgari

• La Favorita del Mahdi, 1911, in Italian

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Gaetano Sangiorgio

• Le Tre Valli Della Sicilia, in Italian

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Gaetano Sanvittore

• I Misteri del Processo Moti e Tognetti, in Italian

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Matilde Serao

• Le Amanti, in Italian
• Dal Vero, in Italian
• Fior de Passione, in Italian
• Gli Amanti, in Italian
• L'Infedele, in Italian

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Ettore Socci

• Da Firenze a Digione, in Italian

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Iginio Ugo Tarchetti (1841-1869)

• Racconti fantastici
• Racconti umoristici

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Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)

• Jerusalem Delivered translated to English by Edward Fairfax

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Paolo Valera

• Dal Cellulare a Finalborgo, 1899

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

• The Notebooks, in English, translated by Jean Paul Richter
• with accents
• without accents
• about Leonardo da Vinci
• Leonardo da Vinci by Maurice Brockwell

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Luciano Zuccoli (1868-1929)

• Il Designata, 1920
• Roberta, 1919

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Latin/Roman Language, Literature, and History

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General

• The Best of the World's Classics edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, Volume 2, Rome
• Greek and Roman Ghost Stories by Lacy Collision-Morley
• A Handbook for Latin Clubs by Susan Paxson, 1916
• A History of Roman Literature by Charles Cruttwell
• Latin Literature by J.W. MacKail

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Ammianus Marcellinus

• The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus, during the reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Vanentinian, and Valens

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Lucius Apuleius

• The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura, translatedb y H.E. Butler
• The Golden Ass, translated to English by William Adlington
• Cupid and Psyche in Latin

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Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor

• Meditations, in English (originally written in Greek, although the author was Roman)
• Thoughts (same book, different translation, this one by Long)
• Thoughts (a third translation)

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Ausonius

• Mosella, in Latin

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Catullus

• The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus, in Latin and English, transalted by Richard Burton
• Poems, in Latin
• Songs to Youth (short), in Latin

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Julius Caesar

• The Gallic War, in Latin (only books 1-8 are currently available)
• Book 1
• Book 2
• Book 3
• Book 4
• Books 5 to 8
• Rice Holmes' commentary on The Gallic War, in English
• Preface
• On Book 1
• On Book 2
• On Book 3
• Geographical Index
• Appendix
• Julius Caesar
• Commentaries (The War in Gaul and the Civil War), translated by W.A. MacDevitt
• James Froude
• Caesar: a Sketch

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Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus

• The Letters of Cassiodorus translated by Thomas Hodgkin

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Cicero

• Academica, in Latin, edited by James Reid
• Cato Maior de Senectute, in Latin, edited by James Reid
• Cicero (biography) by REv. W. Lucas Collins
• Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, in English, translated by C.D. Yonge
• De Amicitia and Scipio's Dream, in English
• Four speeches against Cataline, in Latin
• Miscellaneous Speeches, in Latin
• In C. Verrem
• Pro A. Licinio Archia Poeta
• Pro Q. Ligario
• Pro M. Marcello
• Essays on Friendship and Old Age, translated to English by E. S. Shuckburgh
• The Orations of Cicero, translated by C.D. Yonge, volume 4, 1903
• The Letters of Cicero, the whole extant correspondence in chronoligcal order, translated by Evelyn Shuckburgh, volume 1 of 4
• Letters of Cicero, selected, translated by Evelyn Suckburgh
• The Life of Cicero by Anthony Trollope, volume 1 of 2
• Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators
• Roman Life in the Days of Cicero by Alfred Church

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Cassius Dio

• Dio's Rome, translated by Herbert Foster
• volume 1, extant books 22-35
• volume 2, extant books 36-44, 69 BC to 44 BC
• volume 3, extant books 45-51, 44 BC to 29 BC
• volume 4, extant books 52-60, 29 BC to 54 AD
• volume 5, extant books, 61-76, 54 to 211 AD
• volume 6, extant books 77-80, 211-229 AD

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Sextus Julius Frontin

• Les Quatre Livres des Strategemes, translated from Latin to French by Ch. Bailly

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Horace

• In Latin and English
• De Arte Poetica (The Art of Poetry)
• In Latin
• Epodes (short)
• Songs, Book 1 (short)
• In English
• Odes and Carmen Saeculare, in English
• Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry, in English
• Works, translated by C. Smart
• about Horace
• Horace and His Inflluence by Grant Showerman

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Livy

• Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City), in Latin
• Editor's Preface
• Preface
• Books 1
• The History of Rome, the first eight books, translated by D. Spillan
• History of Rome in English
• Books 1 to 3
• Books 9 to 26
• Books 27 to 36
• Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolo Machiavelli

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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

• Pharsalia, in English

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Titus Lucretius Carus

• Of the Nature of Things, translated to English by William Emery Leonard

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Thomas Macaulay, translator to English

• Lays of Ancient Rome

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Nepos

• Liber de Excellentibus Ducibus (The Book of Excellent Leaders), in Latin
• Preface
• Life of Agesilaus
• Life of Aristides
• Life of Cimon
• Life of Dion
• Life of Epaminondas
• Life of Hamilcar
• Life of Hannibal
• Life of Lysander
• Life of Miltiades
• Life of Pausanias
• Life of Themistocles

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Ovid

• Fasti, in English
• Heroides, in Latin
• Metamorphses, translated by Henry Riley
• volume 1, books 1-7
• volume 2, books 8 to 15

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Petronius Arbiter

• Satyricon, translated by W.C. Firebaugh

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Plautus

• Captivi and The Mostellaria, in English
• Plays, volume 1, translated by Paul Nixon
• Amphitryon
• The Comedy of Asses
• The Pot of Gold
• The Two Bacchises
• The Captives

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Pliny the Younger

• Letters, in English

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Prudentius

• The Hymns of Prudentius, translated by R. Martin Pope
• Poems, in Latin
• Poem 1
• Poem 2
• Poem 3
• Poem 4
• Poem 5
• Poem 6
• Poem 7
• Poem 8
• Poem 9
• Poem 10
• Poem 11
• Poem 12
• Poem 13
• Poem 14

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M. Fabius Quintilianus

• Institutionis Oratoriae, book 10, in Latin

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Sallust

• The Cataline Conspiracy (in Latin)
• De Bello Catilinario et Jugurthino (in Latin)
• The Jugurthine War
• The Conspiracy of Catline and the Jugurthine War (in English)

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L. Annaeus Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

• Apocolocyntosis, translated by W.H.D. Rouse
• On Benefits, translated to English by Aubrey Stewart

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Suetonius

• Lives of the 12 Caesars and Lives of Grammarians, Rhetoricians, and Poets

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Tacitus

• Germany and Agricola, Oxford translation
• Germania et Agricola, in Latin, edited by W.S. Tiler
• The Histories, volumes 1 and 2, translated by W. Hammilton Fyfe
• The Reign of Tiberius (out of the first six Annals)
• about Tacitus
• Tacitus and Bracciolini: the Annals Forged in the Fifteenth Century, 1878, by John Wilson Ross (1818-1887)

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Tibullus

• The Elegies of Tibullus, translated by Theodore Williams, 1908
• Songs, in Latin
• Book 1
• Book 2

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Varro

• Libris Grammaticis de Terenti Varronis (in Latin)

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Virgil (70-19 BC)

• Aeneid
• in English, translator unknown
• in English, translated by J.W. Mackail
• in English, translated by E. Fairfax Taylor
• in Latin
• Eclogues
• in English
• in Latin
• Georgics
• in English
• in Latin
• The Fouth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad in English
• about Virgil
• Quelques Recherches sur le Tombeau de Virgile au Mont Pausilipe by G. Peignot, in French
• Vergil, a Biography by Tenney Frank

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Vitruvius

• The Ten Books on Architecture, translated by Morris Hicky Morgan

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Histories of Ancient Rome, by non-Roman authors

• On the Escavations of the Roman Baths at Bath
• Jacob Abbott
• History of Julius Caesar, 1904
• Romulus, 1901
• Cyril Bailey
• The Religion of Ancient Rome
• A.H. Beesley
• The Gracchi, Marius, and Sulla, 1921
• Jesse Benedict Carter
• The Religion of Numa and Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome
• Rev. Alfred Church
• Roman Life in the Days of Cicero
• Francis Marion Crawford
• Ave Roma Immortalis: Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Charles Cruttwell
• A History of Roman Literature
• Franz Cumont
• The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
• Thomas de Quincey
• The Caesars
• Charles K. Dillaway
• Roman Antiquities and Ancient Mytholgy for Classical Schools
• Guglielmo Fenero
• Characters and Events of Roman History form Caesar to Nero
• The Women of the Caesars
• Edward Gibbon
• Fall of the Roman Empire
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6

• Arthur Gilman
• The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
• Oliver Goldsmith
• Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome, 1851
• A.H.J. Greenridge
• A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
• volume 1 133-104 BC [including Gracchi, Marius, and Sula]
• A. Haverfield
• The Romanization of Roman Britain
• Charles Kingsley
• The Roman and The Teuton
• Rodolfo Lanciani
• Pagan and Christian Rome
• Frances Lord
• Roman Pronunciation of Latin
• John Lord
• The Old Roman World
• Hugh Macmillan
• Roman Mosaics, 1888
• Ralph Magoffin
• Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste, 1908
• Theodor Mommsen
• History of Rome translated by William Purdie Dickson
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Roemische Geschichte (History of Rome, in German)
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 8 (6-7 not yet available)
• Charels Morris
• Historical Tales, The Romance of Reality, volume 11, Roman
• Robert Pennel
• Ancient Rome from the Earliest Times Down to 476 AD

• Plutarch
• Essays and Miscellanies
• Lives, translated by A.H. Clough, includes 50 biographies, 23 Greek, 23 Roman, 2 others; originally published in 5 volumes
• Charlotte Younge
• Young Folks' History of Rome, 1880

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Italian History (including Art History)

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• Amerigo Vespucci by Frederick A. Ober
• Autobiography of Benevenuto Cellini
• Beatrice D'Este, Duchess of Milan 1475-1497, a Study fo the Renaissance by Julia Cartwright
• Cavour by The Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaesco
• Ceremonies of the Holy Week at Rome by Monsignor Baggs, 1854
• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
• Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana, in Italian
• Della Storia d'Italia Dalle Origini Fino Ai Nostri Giorni by Cesare Balbo, in Italian
• Donatello by Lord Balcarres, in English
• Economisti  del Cinque e Seicento edited by Augusto Graziani
• Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa by Edward Hutton, 1907
• The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance by Berhnhard Berenson
• Fra Angelico by J. B. Supino, translated by Leader Scott
• Giotto and His Works in Padua by John Ruskin
• Great Italian and French Composers by George T. Ferris
• Great Artists volume 1 (Raphael, Murillo, Rubens, Durer) by jennie Ellis Keysor
• Knights of the Arts: Stories of the Italian Painters by Amy Steedman
• The Borgias by Alexandre Dumas (from Celebrated Crimes)
• Giorgione by Herbert Cook, 1904
• Histoire des Plus Celebres Amateurs Italien et de Leur Relations Avec les Artistes by J-G. Dumesnil, volume 4, in French
• Italian Journeys by W.D. Howells
• Jerome Cardan, a Biographical Study by W.G. Waters
• The Later Wok of Titian by Claude Phillips, 1898
• Lectures on Art Delivered Before the University of Oxford, 1870, by John ruskin
• The Liberation of Italy 1815-1870 by Countess Evelyn Cesaresco
• The Life of St. Francis of Assisi by paul Sabatier, translated by Louise Seymour Houghton
• Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects by Giorgio Vassari, translated by Gaston du C. de Vere, volume 1
• The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari,
• volume 1 of 8
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• volume 6
• Lucretia Borgia by Ferdinand Gregorovius
• Memorie del Presbiterio by Emilio Praga
• Niccolo Machiavelli
• Description of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino when Murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliverotto da Fermo, the Signor Pagolo, and the Duke di Gravina Orsini (short)
• The History of Florence
• Life of Castruccio Castracani of Luccai (short)
• The Prince
• The Discourses
• Michael Angelo Buonarroti by Charles Holroyd
• Quatre Mois de l'Expedition de Garibaldi by H. Durand-Brager
• Ravenna: a Study by Edward Hutton
• The Renaissance in Italy: the Age of the Depots by John Symonds
• The Renaissance in Italy, The Catholic Reaction, volumes 1 and 2 by John Symonds
• The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin
• Studi Intorna Alla Storia Dealla Lombardia
• A Summary History of the Palazzo Dandolo in Venice, 1896
• Tragedies of the Medici by Edgcumbe Staley
• The Travels of Marco Polo (the complete Yule-Cordier Editioni), 1920
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Val d'Arno by John Ruskin
• The Venitian Painters of the Renaissance by Bernhard Berenson

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Travel

• Diversions in Sicily by Henry Festing Jones
• Florence Historique, Monumentale, Artistique by Marcel Nike, in French
• New Italian Sketches by John Addington Symonds
• Seeing Europe With Famous Authors by Francis Halsey
• volume 7 Italy, Sicily and Greece, part 1
• volume 8 Italy, Sicily and Greece, part 2
• Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece by John Symonds, complete (all three series)
• Le Tour du Monde, Un Mois en Sicile, in French
• Nights: Rome, Venice in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, paris in the Fighting Nineties, 1916
• Rome in 1860 by Edward Dicey
• The Vaudois of Piedmont, a visit to their valleys by J.N. Worsfold, 1873
• Wanderer in Venice by E.V. Lucas
• The Wonders of Pompeii by Marc Monnier

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Cooking

• The Italian Cook Book, the Art of Eating Well, Practical Recipes of the Italian Cuisine compiled by Mrs. Maria Gentile

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Historical Novels about Ancient Rome and Italy

• Anne C.E. Allinson
• Roads from Rome
• Irving Bacheller
• Vergilius, a tale of the coming of Christ
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• The Last Days of Pompeii
• Rienzi, The Last of the Roman Tribunes
• Wilkie Collins
• Antonina or the Fall of Rome
• Frances Elliot
• The Italians
• Maurice Hewlett
• Little Novels of Italy
• Charles Kingsley
• Hypatia
• Duffield Osborne
• The Lion's Brood
• Walter Pater
• Marius the Epicurean
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Arthur Schnitzler
• Casanova's Homecoming
• Henryk Sienkiewicz
• Quo Vadis, a Narrative of the Time of Nero
• Martha Trent
• Lucia Rudini
• Lew Wallace
• Ben Hur
• William Ware
• Aurelian or Rome in the Third Century
• Zenobia or the Fall of Palmyra