The Eyes of Venice
Alessandro Barbero is the author ofThe Battle: A New History of Waterloo(Walker & Co., 2005), andCharlamagne: Father of a Continent, andMaster Pyle’s Bella Vita and Other People’s Wars, winner of the Strega Prize for Fiction. He is a renowned historian whose two-volume history of the Battle of Lepanto is considered to be the definitive text on the subject. He teaches Medieval History at the University of Eastern Piedmont in Vercelli, Italy.