The Italians: history, art, and the genius of a people

Rome and the empire, prehistory to AD 500 / Karl Christ

The medieval centuries, 500-1350 / Bryan Ward-Perkins

Humanism and Renaissance, 1350-1527 / J.R. Hale

Disaster and recovery, 1527-1750 / Eric Cochrane

The age of romanticism, 1750-1860 / Francis Haskell

Modern Italy, 1860 to the present / Franco Andreucci.