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David Gilmour

The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples

Hay Festival 2011, 
A tour of Europe’s most assertively regional state and its leaders from Cicero and Virgil to Machiavelli and the Medici, Garibaldi and Cavour, and the rather less inspiring political figures of the C20th.

Read a recent review of The Pursuit of Italy