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• Melanthe, or, The Days of the Medici: A Tale of the Fifteenth Century (3 volumes; London: J. Mitchell, 1843), by Mrs. Maberly
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust

• The Carnival of Florence (New York: Dutton, 1915), by Marjorie Bowen (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• History of Florence, and of the Affairs of Italy, From the Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent, by Niccolò Machiavelli, contrib. by Hugo Albert Rennert (Gutenberg text)
• Lives of the Early Medici As Told in Their Correspondence (London: Chatto and Windus, 1910), ed. by Janet Ross (multiple formats at archive.org)
• L'Osservatore Fiorentino Sugli Edifizi Della Sua Patria (4th edition; 16 books in 4 volumes, in Italian; Florence: G. Ricci, 1831), by Marco Lastri (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Works of Nicholas Machiavel (2 volumes; London: Printed for T. Davies et al., 1762), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Ellis Farneworth, contrib. by King of Prussia Frederick II
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The Works of Nicholas Machiavel, Secretary of State to the Republic of Florence: Translated From the Originals, Illustrated with Notes, Annotations, Dissertations, and Several New Plans on the Art of War (second edition, corrected, in 4 volumes; London: Printed by T. Davies et al., 1775), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Ellis Farneworth, contrib. by King of Prussia Frederick II
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence (London: Printed for John Starkey, Charles Harper, and John Amery, 1680), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Henry Neville (PDF and page images at CMU)
• The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence (second edition; London: Printed for R. Clavel, et al., 1695), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Henry Neville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence (third edition; London: Printed by T. W. for A. Churchill et al, 1720), by Niccolò Machiavelli, trans. by Henry Neville (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Strozzi of Florence: Widowhood and Family Solidarity in the Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Ann Crabb (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cronache dei Secoli XIII e XIV: Annales Ptolemaei Lucensis; Sanzanome Iudicis Gesta Florentinorum; Diario di ser Giovanni di Lemmo da Comugnori; Diario d'Anonimo Fiorentino; Chronicon Tolosani Canonici Faventini (in Italian; Florence: Tip. di M. Cellini e c., 1876), ed. by Marco Tabarrini, Carlo Minutoli, G. Milanesi, Luigi Passerini, and Alessandro Gherardi, contrib. by Bartholomew of Lucca, Sanzanome Iudicis, Giovanni di Lemmo Armaleoni da Comugnori, and Tolosanus
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sulle Fonti della Storia Fiorentina di Benedetto Varchi (in Italian; Sarzana: E. Costa, 1906), by Michele Lupo Gentile (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Florence in Transition (2 volumes originally published 1967-1968; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Marvin B. Becker
  • Volume 1 (The Decline of the Commune): HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
  • Volume 2 (Studies in the Rise of the Territorial State): HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE
• Croniche di Messer Giovanni Villani Cittadino Fiorentino (in Italian; Venice: B. Zanetti, 1537), by Giovanni Villani, ed. by Giacomo Fasolo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Croniche Storiche di Giovanni, Matteo e Filippo Villani: A Miglior Lezione Ridotte Coll'Aiuto dei Testi a Penna (7 volumes in Italian; Milan: Borroni e Scotti, 1848), by Giovanni Villani, Matteo Villani, and Filippo Villani, contrib. by Michele Sartorio, Ignazio Moutier, and Francesco Gherardi Dragomanni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Villani's Chronicle: Being Selections From the First Nine Books of The Croniche Fiorentine of Giovanni Villani (second edition; London: A, Constable and Co., 1906), by Giovanni Villani, ed. by Philip H. Wicksteed, trans. by Rose E. Selfe
  • illustrated HTML at elfinspell.com
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Croniche Storiche di Giovanni, Matteo e Filippo Villani: A Miglior Lezione Ridotte Coll'Aiuto dei Testi a Penna (7 volumes in Italian; Milan: Borroni e Scotti, 1848), by Giovanni Villani, Matteo Villani, and Filippo Villani, contrib. by Michele Sartorio, Ignazio Moutier, and Francesco Gherardi Dragomanni (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, by John Addington Symonds (Gutenberg text)

• Florentine Essays: Selected Writings of Marvin B. Becker (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002), by Marvin B. Becker, ed. by James R. Banker and Carol Lansing (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Honour of Savelli: A Romance (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1895), by S. Levett Yeats (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Romance of History: Italy (London: F. Warne and Co., ca. 1872), by Charles MacFarlane, illust. by Thomas Landseer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy (London: Alston Rivers, 1906), by Marjorie Bowen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1906), by Marjorie Bowen (Gutenberg text)

• Valperga, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (HTML at Bibliomania)

• Agnes of Sorrento, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (HTML and page images at Virginia)

• The Lion of St. Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century, by G. A. Henty (Gutenberg text)
• Signors of the Night (London: C. A. Pearson Ltd., 1899), by Max Pemberton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Golden Book of Venice: A Historical Romance of the 16th Century, by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull (Gutenberg text)
• The Shadow of the Lion, by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer (multiple formats at freedoors.org)

• Venetian Masque (1934), by Rafael Sabatini (text in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Agnes of Sorrento, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (HTML and page images at Virginia)

• Mona Lisa, I: The Prince of Taranto (3 volumes; no further installments known to be published; New York: Dial Press, 1956), by Tiffany Thayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bellarion the Fortunate (1926), by Rafael Sabatini (text in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Sir John Hawkwood: A Tale of the White Company in Italy (New York: R. F. Fenno and Co., c1911), by Marion Polk Angellotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Valperga, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (HTML at Bibliomania)

• Then and Now (c1946), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Corinne: or, Italy (London: Richard Bentley, 1833), by Madame de Staël, trans. by Isabel Hill, contrib. by L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 1635: The Cannon Law (included on a Baen CD image; c2006), by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• 1634: The Galileo Affair (included on a Baen CD image; c2004), by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB

• The Gadfly, by E. L. Voynich (Gutenberg text)
• Out With Garibaldi: A Story of the Liberation of Italy (London et al.: Blackie and Son, 1901), by G. A. Henty, illust. by W. Rainey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Conspiracy of the Carbonari (New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1896), by L. Mühlbach, trans. by Mary J. Safford (Gutenberg text)

• The Cardinal's Snuff-Box, by Henry Harland (Gutenberg text)

• The Daltons: or, Three Roads in Life (2 volumes; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1895-1904), by Charles Lever, illust. by Hablot Knight Browne
  • Volume 1: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume 2: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• A Room with a View, by E. M. Forster (Gutenberg text)
• Incognita: or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd, by William Congreve (Gutenberg text)
• Romola, by George Eliot (Gutenberg text)

• Une Visite à la Chapelle des Médicis: Dialogue sur Michel-Ange et Raphael (in French; Paris: Sandoz et Fischbacher, 1872), by Émile Ollivier
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust