Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Bread and Tulips
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
Trouble in Paradise
Italian for Beginners
Casanova
Gatto
A Little Romance
Boomerang
The Merchant of Venice
Secret Confessions in a Cloistered Convent
Latitudes
Chasing Liberty
Death in Venice
Venezia
Adventures of Casanova
Nest of Vipers
The Libertine
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Hannibal