 | The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics) by Giorgio Vasari
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £4.82 Over 500 years old, but still the richest resource for Tuscan Renaissance art
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 | The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
Buy new: £4.57 / Used from: £0.01 Poolside reading, Tuscan style. Landscape, romance, and mystery.
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 | War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944 by Iris Origo
Buy new: £6.43 / Used from: £2.13 Contemporary account of wartime trauma in what was then a rural backwater.
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 | Frommer's Tuscany and Umbria with Your Family: From Renaissance Architecture to Stunning Scenery (Frommers With Your Family Series) by Donald Strachan
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £3.29 The only guidebook to Tuscany written from the ground up for family visitors.
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 | The Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri
Buy new: £6.01 / Used from: £9.07 The original Tuscan epic poem, which gave birth to the Italian language.
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 | The Prince (Penguin Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy new: £3.47 / Used from: £1.58 A classic of realist political thought that's more subtle than you expect.
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 | Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman by Frances Stonor Saunders
Buy new: £5.34 / Used from: £0.01 Historical page-turner about an English mercenary in medieval Tuscany.
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 | Frommer's Florence and Tuscany Day by Day (Frommers Day by Day) by Donald Strachan
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £2.47 Pocket-sized guidebook with 34 maps and 28 self-guided tours round the region.
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 | Sienese Painting: The Art of a City-Republic (1278-1477) (World of Art) by Timothy Hyman
Buy new: £8.06 / Used from: £1.87 The definitive guide to painting in Siena, for experts or beginners.
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 | The Stones of Florence: AND Venice Observed (Penguin Modern Classics) by Mary McCarthy
Buy new: £6.84 / Used from: £4.38 The history of a city told through the lives, obsessions, and fates of its great artists.
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