A starting book for the late nineteenth-century Italian Navy

What English-language book is a good starting point for the late nineteenth-century Italian Navy?

Quintin Barry's Battle of Lissa 1866, especially because it points readers toward further sources.

English-language studies of the late nineteenth-century Italian Navy are difficult to find. Quintin Barry's Battle of Lissa 1866 is recommended as a starting point. The book provides a focused account of the campaign and battle while supplying sources that lead further into the Italian fleet. It works as a narrative introduction and a bridge to deeper research.