Books I Read
- Four Seasons in Rome, Anthony Doerr
- The Twelve Caesars: The Dramatic Lives of the Emperors of Rome, Matthew Dennison
- Rome: An Empire’s Story, Greg Woolfe
- The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World’s Greatest Empire, Anthony Everitt
Italian History Books | Hon. Gary K. Hart
- McCulough, Colleen: The First Man in Rome (as well as the other four volumes of her historical novels of ancient Rome)
- Freeman, Philip: Julius Caesar
- Unger, Miles J.: Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Time of Lorenzo de’Medici
- Mack, Dennis Smith: Mussolini
- Kertzer, David I.: The Pope and Mussolini
- Naples 44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
- Gilmour, David: The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions and Their Peoples
- Finley, M. I.: A History of Sicily
- Wills, Garry: Venice: Lion City: The Religion of Empire
- Murphy, Cullen: Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America