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Un Amico Italianoby Luca Spaghetti; Antony Shugaar
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 9.99Luca Spaghetti is not only one of my favorite people in the world, but also a natural-born storyteller. . . . This [is a] marvelous book." -Elizabeth Gilbert When Luca Spaghetti (yes, that's really his name) was asked to show a writer named Elizabeth Gilbert around Rome, he had no idea how his life was about to change. She embraced his Roman ebullience, and Luca in turn became her guardian angel, determined that his city would help Liz out of her funk. Filled with colorful anecdotes about food, language, soccer, daily life in Rome, and Luca's own fish-out-of-water moments as a visitor to the United States-and culminating with the episodes in Liz's bestselling memoir, told from Luca's side of the table- Un Amico Italiano is a book... more...
Syracuse, City of Legendsby Jeremy Dummett
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 35.00Dubbed 'the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of them all' by Cicero, Syracuse also boasts the richest history of anywhere in Sicily. "Syracuse, City of Legends" - the first modern historical guide to the city - explores Syracuse's place within the island and the wider Mediterranean and reveals why it continues to captivate visitors today, more than two and a half millennia after its foundation. Over its long and colorful life, Syracuse has been home to many creative figures, including Archimedes, the greatest mathematician of the ancient world, as well as host to Sappho, Plato, Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal, and Caravaggio, who have all contributed to the rich history and atmosphere of this beguiling... more...
Stolen Figsby Mark Rotella
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004; US$ 9.99An effortlessly artful blend of travel book, memoir, and affectionate portrait of a people Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy—a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during the scorching summers while the sea crashes against the cliffs on both coasts. Calabria is also a seedbed of Italian American culture; in North America, more people of Italian heritage trace their roots to Calabria than to almost any other region in Italy. Mark Rotella’s Stolen Figs is a marvelous evocation of Calabria and Calabrians, whose way of life is largely untouched by the commerce that has made Tuscany and Umbria into international tourist redoubts. A grandson of Calabrian immigrants, Rotella... more...
Making Out In Italianby Nicoletta Nencioli Aiken
Tuttle Publishing 2011; US$ 7.95Learn to speak the way real Italians do! Making Out in Italian is a fantastic guide to the authentic speech of Italy. Presented in an easy, informal way, it teaches the actual language that is spoken in the everyday situations you're most likely to encounter when in Italy. Featuring a pronunciation guide and helpful notes about Italian natives, language and culture, this book provides essential conversational phrases for every ocassion. So whether you need to order a meal in a restaurant, get a fair price on something in a shop, fit in with the slang-slinging locals in a trattoria or impress the parents of your new Italian date, you'll find just the phrases you need. more...
Frommer's Portable Veniceby Darwin Porter; Danforth Prince
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 10.99A succinct guide to the pleasures of Venice Venice had 58 million tourist visits in 2001, up 5.8 percent Our book pinpoints the best dining, nightlife, and accommodations, including the city's renowned luxury hotels as well as bargain alternatives It delivers the scoop on St. Mark's Square, the Grand Canal, museums, churches, the Lido, lagoon islands, and other attractions more...
Bella Tuscanyby Frances Mayes
Broadway Books 2003; US$ 11.99Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites us back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy. A companion volume to Under the Tuscan Sun , Bella Tuscany is Frances Mayes's passionate and lyrical account of her continuing love affair with Italy. Now truly at home there, Mayes writes of her deepening connection to the land, her flourishing friendships with local people, the joys of art, food, and wine, and the rewards and occasional heartbreaks of her villa's ongoing restoration. It is also a memoir of a season of change, and of renewed possibility. As spring becomes summer she revives her lush gardens,... more...
An Italian Affairby Laura Fraser
Knopf Publishing Group 2001; US$ 9.99When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to leave some of her sadness behind. There, on the island of Ischia, she meets M., an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized love of life. What they both assume will be a casual vacation tryst turns into a passionate, transatlantic love affair, as they rendezvous in London, Marrakech, Milan, the Aeolian Islands, and San Francisco. Each encounter is a delirious immersion into place (sumptuous food and wine, dazzling scenery, lush gardens, and vibrant streetscapes) and into each other. And with each experience, Laura brings home not only a lasting sense of pleasure, but a more fully recovered sense of her emotional and... more...
Adventure Guide to the Italian Rivieraby Amy Finley
Hunter Publishing 2006; US$ 15.00Covers, in detail, one of the most beautiful areas of Italy, known as Liguria, with precipitous cliffs, port towns and ancient towers standing watch over a brilliant blue sea. Genoa offers a diverse cultural scene, while San Remo combines a lively beach resort with an historic old town. more...
Adventure Guide to Tuscany & Umbriaby Emma Jones
Hunter Publishing 2004; US$ 15.00This history-rich region offers some of Italy's classic landscapes - pole-straight cypress trees lining dusty farm roads, rolling hills that stretch as far as the eye can see, fields of vibrant sunflowers, medieval villages perched on rocky spurs above crashing surf. Visit them all with this comprehensive guide that helps you explore the very best places. A largely untouched coastline and protected wild areas only add to the appeal of this top vacation destination. Town and regional maps more...
Sicilian Summerby Brian Johnston
Allen & Unwin 2005; US$ 18.14Family honour, religion, tragedy, sex, mayhem and most of all food - this memoir of a Sicilian summer is full of eccentric personalities, family clashes and revelations that are at once amusing and sad - and never short of surprises. more...