In general you're looking for a Venetian font:
Adobe's Jenson Pro is one, Nick Shinn's Goodchild is another. The field is wide... do you want "authentic look" or "inspired by"?

See:
http://www.fontshop.com/fontlist/subclasses/serif_venetian/

Thanks John. Good lead with the Venetian serifs, I'll take a look.

An authentic look isn't particularly required, I was just wanting to look at the authentic ones to better understand the characteristics. I've come across a lot of interesting revivals of Italian faces of the time which I may consider using too.

Thanks again

Centaur is a great one--a redesign of Nicolas Jenson's work, and is considered a Venetian Renaissance font. Designed (if I remember correctly) in the 1920s by Bruce Rogers. Does great in display (as the header for the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art) as well as in print (for a long time Rogers used it exclusively himself on small, fine art books).

If you want a really distinctive look check out P22’s revival of Benton’s Cloister Oldstyle.

I once read a great history book set in Requiem, and I remember the type choice enhancing my reading experience.

If you want a different approach, here's a couple of contemporary takes on the Venetian:

Augustin
Eason

Maybe we can add the newly-released Calluna to the list.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.