Archivio Storico Italiano, Firenze, 1842 ff., 119 vols. to 1903.
The most valuable collection of documents and chronicles supplementary to Muratori.
Arrivabene, Count C., Italy under Victor Emanuel; a personal narrative, London, 1862, 2 vols.—Azeglio, Massimo Marchese d’, Recollections (trans. by Count Maffei), London, 1868, 2 vols.
Bacci, V., Ricordi del Risorgimento Italiano, Milano, 1890.—Balzani, Ugo, Early Chroniclers of Italy, London, 1883.
This volume, one of the series of Early Chroniclers of Europe, contains accounts and criticisms of all the principal chroniclers of the Middle Ages from Cassiodorus to Villani. Including, as it does in many instances, brief extracts from the originals, it gives a very clear idea of the sources of the mediæval history of Italy.
Barth, H., Crispi, Leipsic, 1893.—Bartholomeus Scriba, see Annales Genuenses.—Bartoli, A., I primi due Secoli della Litteratura Italiana, Milano, 1880, 1 vol.—Beaumont-Vassy, E. F., Vicomte de, Histoire des États Européens depuis le Congrès de Vienne, Paris, 1843-1853, 6 vols. (vol. V has sub-title États Italiens).—Bergante, Count A., I nostri tempi, Milano, 1884.—Bersezio, V., Il regno di Vittorio Emanuele II, Trent’ anni di vita italiana, Torino, 1878-1893, 7 vols.—Berti, D., Il conte di Cavour avanti il 1848, Roma, 1886.—Bertocci, Giuseppe, Repertorio Bibliografico delle Opere stampate in Italia nel Secolo XIX, 1876-1887, vols. 1-3.—Bertolini, F., Memorio del Risorgimento Italiano, Milano, 1899; “Storia delle dominazioni Germaniche in Italia,” in Storia politica d’Italia, Milano, 1900.—Bianchi, N., La politica di Massimo d’Azeglio 1848-1859, Torino, 1883; La Casa di Savoia e la Monarchia italiana, Torino, 1884.—Blanc, J., Bibliographie italico-française, Milano, 1886.—Blasi, R., La Nuova Italia, Torino, 1891.—Bonetti, A. M., I Martiri Italiani, Modena, 1891.—Boraschi, G., Garibaldi nella Storia, Pinerolo, 1884.—Bordone, J. P. T., Garibaldi 1807-1882, Paris, 1891.—Bosco, G., Compendium of Italian History, London, 1881, 1 vol.—Botta, Carlo G. G., History of Italy during Consulate and Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte, London, 1828, 2 vols.; Storia d’Italia, Paris, 1837, 14 vols.—Breganze, L., A. Depretis ed i suoi Tempi, Verona, 1894.—Breslau, H., Handbuch der Urkundenlehre für Italien, Leipsic, 1889.—Browning, O., Guelphs and Ghibellines 1256-1409, London, 1893.—Bulle, C., Geschichte des Königreiches Italien, Berlin, 1890.—Bulwer Lytton, E., Rienzi.—Burchardus, Johannes, Diarium (incomplete) in Labarthe and Cimber’s Archives curieuses de l’histoire de France.
The diary of Johannes Burchardus (died 1506), master of ceremonies at the papal court and later Bishop of Horta, is of great importance on account of its reliability. It covers the years 1483-1506, and is concerned principally with the relations of France and England.
Burckhardt, J., Cultur der Renaissance in Italien, 3rd edition, Leipsic, 1877.
As Jakob Burckhardt (1818-1897) combines rare literary skill with great erudition and keen criticism of sources, his is one of the most useful of German works on the Renaissance.
Butt, Isaac, History of Italy from Abdication of Napoleon I, London, 1860, 2 vols.