Goethe: A Life in Ideas Matthew Bell (Princeton ...

Taking as many guises as his names, the Prince of Lies turned at times into a man-devouring ogre, a mutant medley of claws, horns and wings, or the brooding rebel that lit the imagination of Romantic painters, as Carla Passino discovers

Criss-crossing Europe in pursuit of pleasure, Casanova acquired almost as many passport stamps as he did notches on his bedpost, discovers Deborah Nicholls-Lee

The English House: A History in Eight Buildings ...

The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary Kate ...

Base yourself in this handsome villa on Tuscany’s timeless coastline and discover the region’s Etruscan history, says Rosie Paterson