List of 31 Books Based in Florence
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Interested in learning more about Florence? The books below are great but some were published a while ago. Some other resources to learn about Florence include the Crowdsourced Explorer and Wikipedia.
| Title | Author | Publishing Year | Genre |
| A Gift for the Magus | Linda Proud | 2012 | Historical Fiction, Art, Cultural, Italy, Fiction, Medieval |
| A Room With a View | E.M. Forster | 1908 | Novel, Fiction, Travel literature |
| A Tabernacle for the Sun | Linda Proud | 1997 | Historical Fiction |
| A Tale of Poor Lovers | Vasco Pratolini | 1946 | Fiction, Italian Literature, Classics, Novels |
| Artemisia | Anna Banti | 1947 | Biographical Fiction |
| Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture | Ross King | 2000 | History, Nonfiction, Art, Architecture |
| Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City | Paul Strathern | 2011 | Biography |
| Florence: A Delicate Case | David Leavitt | 2002 | Biography, Travel literature |
| Galileo’s Daughter | Dava Sobel | 1999 | Biography |
| Hannibal | Thomas Harris | 1999 | Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Suspense |
| History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy | Niccolò Machiavelli | 1532 | History, Politics, Italy, Nonfiction, Classics, Philosophy |
| I, Mona Lisa | Jeanne Kalogridis | 2006 | historical novel, Historical Fiction, Mystery |
| Inferno | Dan Brown | 2013 | Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Detective novel, Adventure fiction, Conspiracy fiction |
| Innocence | Penelope Fitzgerald | 1986 | Fiction, Romance novel |
| Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici | Miles J. Unger | 2008 | Biography |
| Michelangelo: A Life in Six Masterpieces | Miles Unger | 2014 | Biography |
| Murder of a Medici Princess | Caroline P. Murphy | 2008 | Biography |
| My Cousin Rachel | Daphne du Maurier | 1951 | Novel, Mystery, Fiction, Romance novel |
| Romola | George Eliot | 1863 | Historical Fiction, historical novel |
| Secrecy | Rupert Thomson | 2013 | Historical Fiction |
| The Agony and the Ecstasy | Irving Stone | 1961 | Novel, Biography, Biographical Fiction, Historical Fiction, historical novel, Künstlerroman |
| The Birth of Venus | Sarah Dunant | 2003 | Novel, Historical Fiction |
| The Enchantress of Florence | Salman Rushdie | 2008 | Novel, Historical Fiction |
| The King's Agent | Donna Russo Morin | 2011 | Historical Fiction, Romance novel, Historical romance |
| The Monster of Florence | Magdalen Nabb | 1996 | Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Police procedural |
| The Passion of Artemisia | Susan Vreeland | 2001 | Novel, Historical Fiction, Biographical Fiction |
| The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | 1881 | Novel, Fiction |
| The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | 1532 | Non-fiction |
| The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall | Christopher Hibbert | 1974 | Biography |
| The Way Back to Florence | Glenn Haybittle | 2015 | Historical Fiction |
| Up at the Villa | W. Somerset Maugham | 1941 | Romance novel |
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