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Martha Feldman, "Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome" (Zone Books, 2026)
42 mins; March 22, 2026
Jake Nabel, "The Arsacids of Rome: Misunderstanding in Roman-Parthian Relations" (U California Press, 2025)
95 hours 14 mins; March 16, 2026
Jessica Clarke, "A New History of Ancient Roman Theatre" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
49 mins; March 13, 2026
Kim Bowes, "Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent" (Princeton UP, 2025)
61 hours 38 mins; March 12, 2026
The Augustan Revolution: On Ancient Rome with Reece Edmends
63 hours 25 mins; March 11, 2026
David Frankfurter ed., "Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic" (Brill, 2019)
39 mins; February 19, 2026
Maureen Miller and N. ƞenocak, "A People's Church: Medieval Italy and Christianity, 1050-1300" (Cornell UP, 2023)
60 hours 5 mins; February 07, 2026
Luca Cottini, "The Rise of Americanism in Italy, 1888-1919" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
59 mins; February 02, 2026
Gaoheng Zhang, "Italian Dumplings and Chinese Pizzas: Transcultural Food Mobilities" (Fordham UP, 2025)
42 mins; January 31, 2026
Saundra Weddle, "The Brothel and Beyond: An Urban History of the Sex Trade in Early Modern Venice" (Penn State UP, 2026)
56 mins; January 28, 2026
Amanda G. Madden, "Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy" (Cornell UP, 2025)
53 mins; January 18, 2026
Anna Sergi, "How to Recognize the Mafia Abroad: Critical Notes on ‘ndrangheta Mobility" (Policy Press, 2025)
55 mins; January 11, 2026
David Broder, "Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy" (Pluto Press, 2023)
75 hours 7 mins; January 10, 2026
Rachel Midura, "Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe" (Cornell UP, 2025)
41 mins; January 07, 2026
Stuart Carroll, "Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
51 mins; January 03, 2026
Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli, "Citifying Jesus: The Making of a Roman Religion in the Roman Empire" (Mohr Siebeck, 2024)
56 mins; December 24, 2025
Mayu Fujikawa, "Envisioning Diplomacy: Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2025)
55 mins; December 19, 2025
Tullia d'Aragona, "The Wretch, Otherwise Known As Guerrino" (Iter Press, 2025)
51 mins; December 15, 2025
James Lacey, "Rome: Strategy of Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
59 mins; November 29, 2025
Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)
65 hours 35 mins; November 28, 2025
Christina Jerne, "Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
56 mins; November 19, 2025
Elizabeth Currie, "Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio" (Reaktion, 2025)
37 mins; November 02, 2025
Jeremy Swist, "Julian Augustus: Platonism, Myth and the Refounding of Rome" (Oxford UP, 2025)
89 hours 40 mins; October 27, 2025
Selena Daly, "Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
63 hours 32 mins; October 24, 2025
Lorenzo Castellani, "Alberto Beneduce, Mussolini's Technocrat: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Fascist Italy" (Routledge, 2025)
47 mins; October 18, 2025
Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, "Shipping Sculptures from Early Modern Italy: The Mechanics, Costs, Risks, and Rewards" (Brepols, 2025)
54 mins; October 17, 2025
Justin Stover and George Woudhuysen, "The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
86 hours 32 mins; October 13, 2025
Matt Myers, "The Halted March of the European Left: The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968-1989" (Oxford UP, 2025)
73 hours 3 mins; September 30, 2025
Francesco Buscemi, "Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda: A Political History of Italian Food TV" (Intellect, 2022)
54 mins; September 28, 2025
Raffale Bedarida, "Corrado Cagli: Transatlantic Bridges (1938-1947" (Centro Primo Levi, 2023)
112 hours 42 mins; August 12, 2025
Federico Marcon, "Fascism: The History of a Word" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
94 hours 3 mins; August 11, 2025
Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
87 hours 12 mins; August 04, 2025
Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
64 hours 20 mins; July 26, 2025
Ignacio G. GalĂĄn, "Furnishing Fascism: Modernist Design and Politics in Italy" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
54 mins; July 12, 2025
Samuel Kline Cohn, "Popular Protest and Ideals of Democracy in Late Renaissance Italy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
32 mins; July 11, 2025
Bernd Roeck, "The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance" (Princeton UP, 2025)
52 mins; June 22, 2025
Stefanie Lenk, "Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
44 mins; June 09, 2025
Camilla Annerfeldt, "Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
29 mins; May 24, 2025
Anna Wainwright, "Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance" (U Delaware Press, 2025)
53 mins; May 13, 2025
Miles Pattenden, "Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700" (Oxford UP, 2017)
52 mins; May 02, 2025
Cam Grey, "Living with Risk in the Late Roman World" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
71 hours 26 mins; April 28, 2025
Annalisa Marzano, "Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome" (Cambridge UP. 2022)
47 mins; April 27, 2025
Eleanor Paynter, "Emergency in Transit: Witnessing Migration in the Colonial Present" (U California Press, 2024)
52 mins; April 26, 2025
Giorgio Bertellini, "The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and the Political Leadership in 1920s America" (U California Press, 2019)
58 mins; April 21, 2025
Fernanda Gallo, "Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
46 mins; April 20, 2025
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, "The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity: A Study in Resilience" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
72 hours 19 mins; April 16, 2025
Enrico Fink, ed., "Shirat Hayam: The Song of the Sea" (Centro Primo Levi, 2023)
66 hours 31 mins; April 10, 2025
Stephen J. Campbell, "Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
44 mins; April 09, 2025
Loretta Vandi, "Eufrasia Burlamacchi" (Getty Publications, 2025)
45 mins; April 08, 2025
Roland Mayer, "The Ruins of Rome: A Cultural History" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
73 hours 30 mins; April 07, 2025
Lingua Napoletana and Language Oppression
38 mins; April 06, 2025
Chiara Faggella, "Becoming Couture: The Italian Fashion Industry after the Second World War" (Manchester UP, 2024)
45 mins; March 13, 2025
Melissa Vise, "The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)
50 mins; March 12, 2025
Exploring Muslim Sicily with Nuha Alshaar and Shainool Jiwa
53 mins; March 07, 2025
Maria Kaika and Luca Ruggiero, "Class Meets Land: The Embodied History of Land Financialization" (U California Press, 2024)
60 hours 7 mins; March 06, 2025
Robert C. Austin, "Royal Fraud: The Story of Albania's First and Last King" (Central European UP, 2024)
60 hours 17 mins; March 04, 2025
Megan Moran, "Gender and Family Networks in Early Modern Italy" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
48 mins; February 23, 2025
Mario Cams and Elke Papelitzky, "Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the 'Ricci Maps'" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
48 mins; February 20, 2025
Kathryn Taylor, "Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early Modern Venice" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
41 mins; February 18, 2025
Pamela Allen Brown, "The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata" (Oxford UP, 2021)
59 mins; February 14, 2025
Vittorio Bufacchi, "Why Cicero Matters" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
64 hours 45 mins; February 04, 2025
Sarah E. Bond, "Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire" (Yale UP, 2024)
76 hours 55 mins; February 04, 2025
Bianca M. Lopez, "Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval Italy" (Cornell UP, 2024)
51 mins; January 21, 2025
Anthony McElligott, "The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
80 hours 52 mins; January 20, 2025
Yehudah Cohn, trans., "Mine Is The Golden Tongue: The Hebrew Sonnets Of Immanuel Of Rome" (Centro Primo Levi, 2023)
69 hours 17 mins; January 14, 2025
Giovanna Ceserani, "A World Made by Traval: A Digital Grand Tour" (Stanford UP, 2024)
44 mins; December 27, 2024
Theresa Flanigan, "The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence" (Brepols, 2024)
46 mins; December 21, 2024
Emanuela Trevisan Semi, "Taamrat Emmanuel: An Ethiopian Jewish Intellectual, Between Colonized and Colonizers" (Centro Primo Levi, 2018)
94 hours 27 mins; December 14, 2024
Henri Colt, "Becoming Modigliani" (Rake Press, 2024)
54 mins; December 09, 2024
F. K. Clementi, "South of My Dreams: Finding My American Home, A Memoir" (U South Carolina Press, 2024)
53 mins; December 09, 2024
Denys Turner, "Dante the Theologian" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
80 hours 9 mins; November 27, 2024
Nina Valbousquet, "Lukewarm Souls: The Vatican facing the Shoah" (La DĂ©couverte, 2024)
62 hours 19 mins; November 26, 2024
Roberta Pergher, "Mussolini's Nation-Empire: Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
71 hours 2 mins; November 22, 2024
Dennis Romano, "Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City" (Oxford UP, 2023)
66 hours 52 mins; November 20, 2024
Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek, "Redreaming the Renaissance: Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero" (U Delaware Press, 2024)
39 mins; November 10, 2024
Filippo Gianferrari, "Dante's Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
49 mins; November 06, 2024
Toni Alimi, "Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
64 hours 58 mins; October 28, 2024
Sharon Kinoshita, "Marco Polo and His World" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
46 mins; October 26, 2024
Joseph John Viscomi, "Migration at the End of Empire: Time and the Politics of Departure Between Italy and Egypt" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
95 hours 29 mins; October 18, 2024
Migration, Constraints, and Suffering
36 mins; October 12, 2024
Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
69 hours 40 mins; October 07, 2024
Serena Laiena, "The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy: Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing" (U Delaware Press, 2023)
45 mins; October 05, 2024
Francesco Piraino, "Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
63 hours 49 mins; October 04, 2024
Paola Bertucci, "In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
68 hours 15 mins; October 01, 2024
Felia Allum, "Women of the Mafia: Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra" (Cornell UP, 2024)
51 mins; September 21, 2024
Philip Freeman, "Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor" (Yale UP, 2023)
39 mins; September 16, 2024
Andrea Moudarres, "The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso" (U Virginia Press, 2019)
60 hours 37 mins; September 03, 2024
Christopher Beckman, "Twist in the Tail: How the Humble Anchovy Flavoured Western Cuisine" (Hurst, 2024)
42 mins; August 23, 2024
Matthew Evangelista, "Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945: Bombing among Friends" (Routledge, 2024)
58 mins; August 10, 2024
Andrew Denning, "Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa" (Cornell UP, 2024)
70 hours 38 mins; August 07, 2024
Anna Bonnell Freidin, "Birthing Romans: Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome" (Princeton UP, 2024)
98 hours 23 mins; August 05, 2024
Mark Letteney, "The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
73 hours 9 mins; July 22, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis, "The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium" (Oxford UP, 2024)
60 hours 45 mins; July 20, 2024
Alessandra Montalbano, "Ransom Kidnapping in Italy: Crime, Memory, and Violence" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
50 mins; July 19, 2024
Anthony Di Renzo, "Pasquinades: Essays from Rome's Famous Talking Statue" (Cayuga Lake Books, 2023)
41 mins; July 18, 2024
Emily Wilbourne, "Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence" (Oxford UP, 2023)
65 hours 6 mins; July 16, 2024
Karine Varley, "Vichy's Double Bind: French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
78 hours 46 mins; July 09, 2024
Verso l’Alto (with Christine Wohar)
74 hours 19 mins; July 04, 2024
Denva Gallant, "Illuminating the Vitae Patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy" (Penn State UP, 2024)
52 mins; June 29, 2024
Orazio Coco, "Sino-Italian Political and Economic Relations: From the Treaty of Friendship to the Second World War" (Routledge, 2024)
53 mins; June 23, 2024
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