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• Illuminations in The Robert Lehman Collection (Robert Lehman Collection series v4; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), by Sandra Hindman, Mirella Levi D'Ancona, Pia Palladino, and Maria Saffiotti Dale (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

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

• Les Traditions Techniques de la Peinture Médiévale (in French; Brussels and Paris: G. van Oest et cie, 1914), by G. Loumyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Cloisters Apocalypse: An Early Fourteenth-Century Manuscript in Facsimile (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971), contrib. by Florens Deuchler, Jeffrey Hoffeld, and Helmut Nickel (PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), by Kathryn M. Rudy (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• A Medieval Mirror: Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 1324-1500 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), by Adrian Wilson and Joyce Lancaster Wilson (illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript: Text Collections from a European Perspective (Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2017), ed. by Karen Pratt, Bart Besamusca, Matthias Meyer, and Ad Putter (PDF in Germany)

• The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1274-1422 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Anne D. Hedeman (HTML at UC Press)

• La Peinture Médiévale à Paris, 1300-1500 (2 volumes in French; Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts, c1987-1990), by Charles Sterling (page images at wpi.art)

• Hortus Deliciarum (black and white scan of an annotated reprint, with captions in Latin and notes in French; Strasbourg: Schlesier and Schweikhardt, 1901), by Herrad of Landsberg, contrib. by A. Straub and G. Keller (page images in reverse order at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Zelotti's Epic Frescoes at Cataio: The Obizzi Saga (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), by Irma B. Jaffe, contrib. by Gernando Colombardo (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Codice dell'Anonimo Gaddiano (cod. Magliabechiano XVII, 17) nella Biblioteca Nazionale de Firenze (2 parts in 1 volume, reprinted from Archivo Storico Italiano, in Italian; Florence, Italy: Tip. M. Cellini e C., 1893), by Cornelius von Fabriczy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Florentine School (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971), by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner (Volume 1: page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Florentine School (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971), by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner (Volume 1: page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Zelotti's Epic Frescoes at Cataio: The Obizzi Saga (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), by Irma B. Jaffe, contrib. by Gernando Colombardo (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Zelotti's Epic Frescoes at Cataio: The Obizzi Saga (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), by Irma B. Jaffe, contrib. by Gernando Colombardo (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: North Italian School (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Saggi di Critica d'Arte: Il Francia; Gli Eredi del Francia; Guido Reni (in Italian; Bologna: N. Zanichelli, 1890), by Giulio Cantalamessa
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Painters of Reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2004), ed. by Andrea Bayer (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Sienese and Central Italian Schools (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980), by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1988), by Keith Christiansen, Laurence B. Kanter, and Carl Brandon Strehlke (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Venetian School (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973), by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Sienese and Central Italian Schools (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980), by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: North Italian School (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Die Lehre von der Malerei im Cinquecento (in German; Rome: F. Frank and Co., 1912), by Karl Birch-Hirschfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Sienese and Central Italian Schools (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980), by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: North Italian School (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Venetian School (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973), by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1998), by Peter Humfrey and Mauro Lucco, contrib. by Andrea Rothe, Andrea Bayer, Dawson W. Carr, Jadranka Bentini, and Anna Coliva (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Painters of Reality: The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2004), ed. by Andrea Bayer (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1988), by Keith Christiansen, Laurence B. Kanter, and Carl Brandon Strehlke (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Italy (with "Italy's Postwar Foreign Policy" by Cantarella and Salvadori; Headline Series #87; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1951), by Massimo Salvadori, contrib. by Michele Cantarella (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Understanding Italy (London: J. Long, Ltd., 1923), by Clayton Sedgwick Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy (first edition; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1960), by Paul MacKendrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monumenti Antichi (in Italian) (partial serial archives)
• Cosa: The Black-Glaze Pottery 2 (Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome supplementary volume 5; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008), by Ann Reynolds Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Grottes de Grimaldi (Baoussé-Roussé) (2 volumes in French; Monaco: Impr. de Monaco, 1906-1919), contrib. by L. de Villeneuve, Marcellin Boule, R. Verneau, and Emile Cartailhac
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume 1: page images at Gallica
• The Faliscans in Prehistoric Times (Rome: American Academy in Rome, 1925), by Louise Adams Holland (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Italian Portrait Gallery: Being Brief Biographies of Scholars Illustrious Within the Memory of Our Grand-Fathers for the Published Monument of Their Genius (Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1935), by Paolo Giovio, trans. by Florence Alden Gragg (HTML at elfinspell.com)

• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, by Jacob Burckhardt, trans. by S. G. C. Middlemore (Gutenberg text)

• Rivalries in Ethiopia (World Affairs Pamphlets #12; Boston and New York: World Peace Foundation, 1935), by Elizabeth P. MacCallum, contrib. by Newton Diehl Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Italy's Civilizing Mission in Africa (New York: Brentano's, 1912), by Paolo De Vecchi (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Interpretation of Italy, Past and Present: 1937 (second edition, 1938), by Kirk Bassett O'Ferrall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of Italy (1549) (abridged from Thomas's original; Ithaca, NY: Pub. for the Folger Shakespeare Library by Cornell University Press, 1963), by William Thomas, ed. by George Bruner Parks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alone, by Norman Douglas (Gutenberg text)
• Beaten Tracks: or, Pen and Pencil Sketches in Italy (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1866), by Elizabeth Tuckett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cities of Northern and Central Italy (3 volumes; London: Daldy, Isbister and Co., 1876), by Augustus J. C. Hare
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• Diary of an Ennuyée (new edition; London: H. Colburn, 1826), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Diary of an Idle Woman in Italy (2 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1871), by Frances Elliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gleanings in Europe: Italy (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1838), by James Fenimore Cooper (HTML at BYU)
• Here and There in Italy and Over The Border (London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1893), by Linda Villari (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Idler in Italy (second edition, 2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1839), by Marguerite Blessington
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Italian Backgrounds (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1905), by Edith Wharton, illust. by Ernest C. Peixotto (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Italian Hours, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• Italian Journeys (ca. 1895), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• Italy (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1821), by Lady Morgan
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna (illustrated; London: Chapman and Hall, 1877), by Karl Stieler, Eduard Paulus, and Woldemar Kaden, ed. by Thomas Adolphus Trollope, trans. by Frances Eleanor Trollope (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Italy Old and New (London: S. Paul and Co., c1922), by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in Italy, 1819-1822, With Illustrations of the Present State of Religion in That Country (second edition; Dublin: W. F. Wakeman, 1831), by Selina Martin (page images at Google)
• New Italian Sketches (copyright edition; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1884), by John Addington Symonds (Gutenberg text)
• Pictures from Italy (from the 1913 Chapman and Hall edition), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Marcus Stone (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Pictures From Italy (Lovell's Library v5 #234; New York: J. W. Lovell Co., 1883), by Charles Dickens
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Pictures from Italy, and American Notes for General Circulation (New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1877), by Charles Dickens, contrib. by Edwin Percy Whipple
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843 (2 volumes; London: E. Moxon, 1844), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roman Holidays, and Others, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Rome, Naples et Florence (third edition, 2 volumes in French; Paris: Delaunay, 1826), by Stendhal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece (3 volumes in 1; London: J. Murray, 1914), by John Addington Symonds, ed. by Horatio F. Brown (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Sketches Descriptive of Italy in the Years 1816 and 1817, With a Brief Account of Travels in Various Parts of France and Switzerland in the Same Years (4 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1820), by Jane Waldie Watts (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Summer and Winter in the Two Sicilies (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1858), by Julia Kavanagh
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• Travels in Italy, Between the Years 1792 and 1798, Containing a View of the Late Revolutions in That Country (2 volumes; London: R. Phillips, 1802), by Mariana Starke
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• A Visit to Italy (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1842), by Frances Milton Trollope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wayfarers in Italy (4th edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1905), by Katharine Hooker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Winter in Italy, in a Series of Letters to a Friend (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1844), by Mrs. Ashton Yates
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• A Year of Consolation (2 volumes; London: E. Moxon, 1847), by Fanny Kemble
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Catalogo delle Fotografie Pubblicate da Giacomo Brogi: Pitture, Vedute, Sculture, ecc.; Napoli e Campania; Roma e Lazio; Sicilia, Bologna, Rimini, ecc. (in Italian; 1912), by Giacomo Brogi (Firm)
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Impressions of Rome, Florence, and Turin (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862), by Elizabeth Missing Sewell (multiple formats at Google)
• Letters from Italy to a Younger Sister (2 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1840-1841), by Catharine Taylor
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Old Gardens of Italy: How to Visit Them (London: B. T. Batsford, ca. 1912), by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Old Gardens of Italy: How to Visit Them (London and New York: J. Lane, 1912), by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1883), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. by Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (HTML at ibiblio.org)
• Sketching Rambles: or, Nature in the Alps and Apennines (2 volumes; London, J. Hogg and sons, ca. 1861), by Agnes Catlow and Maria E. Catlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Spinster's Tour in France, the States of Genoa, &c. During the Year 1827 (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828), by Elizabeth Strutt (multiple formats at Google)
• A Tour To and From Venice, by the Vaudois and the Tyrol (London: J. Ollivier, 1846), by Louisa Stuart Costello (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wayside Flora: or, Gleanings From Rock and Field Towards Rome (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1866), by Nona Bellairs
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an Account of Travels Through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, Accomplished in the Year 1900 (1901), by H. Rider Haggard (multiple formats at TIMEA)
• Slight Reminiscences of the Rhine, Switzerland, and a Corner of Italy (2 volumes; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman; and John Rodwell, 1834), by Mrs. Boddington
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad: With Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected, and a New Ed. of the "Diary of an Ennuyée" (2 volumes in one; New York: Harper and brothers, 1834), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Path to Rome, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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