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Books About Italy: Reviews and Excerpts

Enjoy our selection of Italy travel books.

Whether you are preparing for an Italian vacation or just looking for some armchair travel, there are a wealth of books on Italy, from practical guidebooks to non-fiction accounts of moving to Italy to great novels set in all time periods of Italian history. Perhaps the most famous book on Italy in recent years is Under The Tuscan Sun - and a whole genre of expat-meets-native-Italian life evolved from Frances Mayes' book. At Dream of Italy, we're serious about reading, so if you need a recommendation, see the articles below, we're adding to them all the time.

The articles below are free for all readers to access:

A Woman, A Dog and Umbria - An Excerpt from the New Book Marcus of Umbria
Must Read Italy Book: An Irreverent Curiousity

Interview with Frances Mayes, Author of Under The Tuscan Sun

The articles below are available to paid subscribers only:

The Dream Interview: Tuscany and Umbria Insider Barrie Kerper (July/August 2010)
Kerper is such a thorough researcher she would put any librarian at the Library of Congress to shame. She finds out absolutely everything about a place -- much of it through the eyes of other great travel writers -- and the presents the essential and the fascinating in a compelling way. . . . read more
A Woman, A Dog and Umbria (June 2010)
The new book Marcus of Umbria: What an Italian Dog Taught an American Girl About Love traces Justine van der Leun's funny and illuminating time spent in Collelungo, a 200-person farming village in central Umbria. Justine, a Brooklyn resident, met Emanuele, a local gardener, on vacation and impulsively moved in with him. When she leaves a year later, she has gained a newfound knowledge of language and family, a deep-rooted passion for animals and nature and a small, spotted dog that she'd adopted named Marcus. . . . read more
Authentic Roman Dining Near the Pantheon (April 2009)
Noted author David Downie reveals Rome restaurants, wine bars and trattorias that are favorites among the locals and must visits in Central Rome. . . . read more
Summer Reading For Italophiles (July/August 2008)
Shopping tips, murder mysteries, love affairs with wine, Olympics (not Beijing 2008 -- try Rome, 1960) and a modern Sicilian fairytale -- these summer reading picks have something to please everybody! . . . read more
The Dream Interview: Secrets of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel (May 2008)
Imagine that the world's most celebrated fresco, studied and analyzed for hundreds of years, yields hidden messages, undiscovered for five centuries. Those messages contain Jewish symbols and messages of reconciliation between the faiths. These are the provocative contentions of the authors of a new book . . . read more
Biblioteca Italiana: Which Italy Travel Books to Read This Summer (May 2007)
Publishing houses love Italy, because Italy sells. Even less-thanstellar titles are noticed by Italy enthusiasts, but I'm happy to report that all of the books below are worthy of Dream of Ita . . . read more
Tales of Risotto on Lake Como (March 2007)
Villa d'Este Chef Luciano Parolari, also known as the "King of Risotto" shares cooking tips for his famous risotto, which has been wowing famous and non-famous guests alike for decades . . . read more
The Dreaming of Tuscany Interview: Barbara Ohrbach (February 2007)
Lifestyle doyenne Barbara Milo Ohrbach may already be well known to Dream of Italy readers -- she's the author of numerous trendsetting books, including The Scented Room, Tableto . . . read more
Author Explores Hearts and Minds of Italians (September 2006)
In La Bella Figura: A Field Guide to the Italian Mind, his second book after "Ciao America!" Beppe Severgnini takes his readers on a "tour" of the places where everyday Italian life can be most acutely observed and distilled: the airport, the highway, the bedroom, the piazza, the stadium and the beach, among them. . . . read more
Restaurant Reviews/Recipes from "A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany" (June 2006)
Restaurant reviews and recipes from the new book, A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany by Beth Elon. . . . read more
An Italian Housewife in Hollywood (December 2005)
Every time Stefania Barzini, a Roman, visited the United States, she was struck by the number of books she found by dissatisfied American women who decided to change their lives by going . . . read more
The Dream Interview: John Berendt on Venice (October 2005)
John Berendt wrote about Savannah for "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." Now he takes on Venice in "City of Falling Angels." . . . read more
New Book Explores Complicated Lives of Bernini and Borromini (July/August 2005)
Learn the secrets of the rivalry between these two great architects of Rome. . . . read more
There's an Italian Cookbook for Everyone (July/August 2005)
Peruse the newest in Italian cookbooks. . . . read more
The Dream Interview: Italian Cookbook Author Faith Willinger (June 2005)
Dream of Italy picks the brain of Italian culinary specialist and author of several Italian cookbooks, Faith Willinger, to find out about her favorite Italian ingredients and her weekly Market to Table cooking classes held in Florence. . . . read more
A Book For When You Have Tuscany in Mind June 2005)
With excerpts from Edith Wharton, E.M. Forster, and more contemporary authors, Tuscany in Mind discusses the Italian region from many lovely angles. . . . read more
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