The duchy has a vast footprint, stretching from the rocky shores of Cornwall to south London, and from medieval castles to a granite-walled men’s prison. It recently bought a 400,000-square-foot ...

Misha Glenny presents a compelling new history of Italy from 1494 to the end of the First World War. Piedmont, the Venetian Republic, Mantua, Modena, the Grand Duchy of Florence, the kingdom of ...