Pensum
- Christopher Duggan, A concise history of Italy (second edition), Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Elisabetta Cassina Wolff, Italias politiske historie, 476-1945, Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2015.
Anbefalt lesning
- Anna Cento Bull, Modern Italy: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Zygmunt G. Baranski, Rebecca J. West: The Cambridge Companion of Modern Italian Culture, Cambridge University Press.
- Christopher Cialenza, The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance: Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018)
- Virginia Cox, A Short History of the Italian Renaissance, I.B. Tauris, 2016.
- David Forgacs, Robert Lumley: Italian Cultural Studies: An introduction, Oxford University Press.
- Paul Ginsborg, A History of Contemporary Italy 1943-1980, Penguin Books.