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Giancarlo Aragona
Italian ambassador to the UK

Basil Liddell-Hart, History of the Second World War
Steven Runciman, The Fall of Constantinople
Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister
Duff Cooper, Talleyrand
Ralph Dahrendolf, On Britain
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo
Beppe Fenoglio, Il Partigiano Johnny
Simonetta Agnello Hornby, La Zia Marchesa

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James Bradburne
Director general of Palazzo Strozzi

Sarah Dunant, The Birth of Venus
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-century Italy
Bernard Berenson, The Passionate Sightseer: from the Diaries 1947 to 1956
Iris Origo, The World of San Bernardino
Pico della Mirandola, A Platonick Discourse upon Love
Niccolò Machiavelli, Il Principe
Aby Warburg, The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity: Contributions to the Cultural History of the European Renaissance

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Alessandro Cecchi
Director of the Palatine gallery and Boboli gardens

Herbert Percy Horne, Alessandro Filipepi Commonly Called Sandro Botticelli: Painter of Florence
Francis Haskell, Patrons and Painters: a Study in the Relations Between Italian Art and Society in the Age of Baroque
Johann Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages: a Study of the Forms of Life, Thought and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Marguerite Yourcenar, The Abyss
Maria Bellonci, Lucrezia Borgia
Roberto Ridolfi, Vita di Girolamo Savonarola
Marilena Mosco, La Galleria Palatina: Storia della Quadreria Granducale di Palazzo Pitti
Patricia Lee Rubin, Giorgio Vasari. Art and History
Nicolai Rubinstein, The Palazzo Vecchio 1298 – 1532. Government, Architecture and Imagery in the Civic Palace of the Florentine Republic
Niccolò Capponi, Victory in the West: the Story of the Battle of Lepanto

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Edward Chaplin
British ambassador to Italy

E.H. Gombrich, The Story of Art
Giorgio Vasari, Artists of the Renaissance
Paul Ginsborg, History of Contemporary Italy
Norman Lewis, Naples ’44
Andrew Marr, Ruling Britannia
Wilfred Thesiger, The Marsh Arabs
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong
Adam Zamoysky, Rites of Peace

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Antonio Ciccone
Artist

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
John Hargreaves, As “I” See It: the Scientifically Spiritual Perspective
Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Saint Francis of Assisi, The Little Flowers of Saint Francis
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
Carlo Collodi, Le Avventure di Pinocchio
Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects
The Holy Bible

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Margaret Drabble
Author

Robert Browning, The Poetical Works
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
Gordon Craig, Book of Penny Toys
E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
Margaret Forster, Lady’s Maid
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Italian Journey
Henry James, The Aspern Papers
Helen Langdon, Caravaggio
D. H. Lawrence, Aaron's Rod
Violet Trefusis, Broderie Anglaise
Violet Trefusis, Philipe Jullian, Don't Look Round

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Christine Ferdinand
Fellow Librarian at the Magdalen College, Oxford

Jack Kerouac, On the Road
John Donne, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, War and Peace
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Philip Gaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
William Congreve, Way of the World

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Antonia Ida Fontana
Director of the National library in Florence

Georgette Heyer, The Reluctant Widow
Jane Austen, Persuasion
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
John Keats, Poems of John Keats
W.R. Paton (English trans.), The Greek Anthology
Homer, The Odyssey
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
Catullus, The Poems

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Bona Frescobaldi
Businesswoman

Harold Acton, The Last Medici
Harold Acton, The Villas of Tuscany
Clarice Innocenti (ed.), Women in Power: Caterina and Maria de’ Medici
Terence Ward, Searching for Hassan: a Journey to the Heart of Iran
Roberto Saviano, Gomorra: Viaggio nell'Impero Economico e nel Sogno di Dominio della Camorra
Alexander Stille, Excellent Cadavers: Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Teheran
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

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Paul Ginsborg
Professor of Contemporary European history, University of Florence

Thomas Mann, Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man
Iris Origo, The Last Attachment: the Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli as Told in Their Unpublished Letters and Other Family Papers
George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron's Correspondence, Chiefly with Lady Melbourne, Mr. Hobhouse, The Hon. Douglas Kinnaird, and P. B. Shelley
Edward Miller, Prince of Librarians: the Life and Times of Antonio Panizzi of the British Museum
A. H. Layard, The Brancacci Chapel and Masolino, Masaccio and Filippino Lippi
Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Alexander Wicksteed, Ten years in Soviet Moscow

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Matteo Renzi
Mayor of Florence

Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch
Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia
Carlo Collodi, Le Avventure di Pinocchio
Indro Montanelli, Gente Qualunque
Beppe Severgnini, La Bella Figura: An Insider's Guide to the Italian Mind
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Primo Levi, Se Questo è Un Uomo

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Hugh Roberts
Director of the Royal collection and surveyor of the Queen's works of art

Jane Austen, Emma
Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
Anthony Trollope, Dr. Thorne
Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
Anthony Powell, A Question of Upbringing
Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R. I.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems

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