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Books I have read about Italy...and more to come

Books I have read about Italy....and more to come

A
	1	Agony and the Ecstasy		Irving Stone New American Library		Biographical novel of Michelangelo
	2	Ancient Shore		Shirley Hazzard University of Chicago Press		Writings on Naples
B	1	Bel Vino		Isabella Dusi Pocket		Isabella and Luigi live in Montalcino
C	1	Casa Nostra		Caroline Seller Manzo Harper Collins		Renovation of a villa in Italy
	2	In the Company of the Courtesan		Sarah Dunant Virago		1527 the sacking of Rome. Sins of pleasure and the pleasure of sin. Fiction and fact.
	3	Cosi Fan Tutti		Michael Dibden Vintage Crime		Mistaken identities, wilful impersonations, mixed motives and double lives.
D
	1	A Day in Tuscany		Dario Castagno Self-published		Chianti native leads you through the countryside. With anecdotes.
	2	Dead Lagoon		Michael Dibden Vintage Crime		Mystery: finding dead people in Venice
	3	Death in a Strange Country		Donna Leon Arrow		Murder mystery
	4	Desiring Italy		Susan Cahill Random House		Anthology about  Italy
E	1	Eating Up Italy		Matthew Fort Harper		Epic scooter trip from the South to the North of Italy. Non-fiction.
	2	Elements of Italy (2)		Lisa St. Aubin de Teran Virago		Earth, water, fire and air. History and anecdotes.
F	1	Fabrizio’s Return		Mark Frutkin Vintage Canada		Set in Cremona in 1682. Filled with interesting characters. Fiction.
	2	Falling Palace		Dan Hofstadter		A portrait of an American who has fallen in love with a Neopolitan woman.
	3	Fantasy in Florence (2)		Rod McQueen McArthur and Co.		Selling house and going to live in Florence
	4	Fire in the City		Lauro Martines Oxford		Savonarola and the struggle for the soul of Renaissance Florence
	5	Florence, a Delicate Case		David Leavitt Bloomsbury		Literary insights
	6	Food Lover’s Guide to Florence		Emily Wise Miller Ten Speed		Restaurants
	7	Four Seasons in Rome		Anthony Doerr Scribner		On twins, insomnia and the biggest funeral in the world
G
	1	Garden Lover’s Guide to Italy		Penelope Hobhouse Princeton Architectural Press		100 gardens. Nice pictures
H	1	The hills of Tuscany		Ferenc Mate Delta		Memoir filled with countryside, menus and wine.
	2	The House in Amalfi		Elizabeth Adler St. Martin’s Paperbacks		Mystery about her husband’s death
I	1	I love Capri		Belinda Jones Arrow		Travels to Capri, meets a man, falls in love. (pap fiction)
	2	In Maremma		David Levitt and Mark Mitchell Counterpoint		Buying a dilapidated farm house in Italy
	3	Italian Pleasures		Mark Mitchell Chronicle Books		Quirkiness of Italian life interspersed with short excerpts of literary greats.
	4	Italian Fever		Valerie Martin Vintage		Mystery about American woman coming to settle the affairs after the death of a writer. Takes place in Tuscany.
	5	Italy Fever (2)		Darlene Marwitz Portico		14 ways to satisfy your love affair with Italy.
	6	Italy, A Love Story		Camille Cusumano Seal Women’s Travel		Women write about the Italian experience
	7	Italy out of Hand		Barbara Hodgson Greystone		Different kind of guidebook with macabre stories, strange personalities and bizarre behaviour
L	1	The Lady in the Palazzo		Marlena de Blasi Algonquin		Food, romance and life. Quest to find a home in Italy
	2	The Light in the Piazza		Elizabeth Spencer Penguin		A family travels to Italy where the unbalanced daughter falls in love with an Italian.
	3	Living in a Foreign Language		Michael Tucker Atlantic Monthly		M.T. and Jill Eikenbury buy rustico and live in Umbria
	4	A Literay Companion to Venice		Ian Littlewood St. Martin’s Griffin		Literary greats
	5	A Long Finish		Michael Dibden Vintage Crime		Set in Piedmont. Son of a wine-making family is jailed for killing his father.
	6	The Lost Painting		Jonathan Harr Random house		The quest for a Caravaggio masterpiece. Fiction
M
	1	Midnight in Sicily (2)		Peter Robb Vintage		Violence and corruption in Sicily
	2	My Father Came From italy		Maria Coletta McLean Raincoast Books		Maria buys a house in Supino and returns to Italy with her father. Toronto writer.
N	1	Night Visitor		Gillian White Corgi		Sinister thriller. Small part is set in Venice.
	2	No Vulgar Hotel		Judith Martin Norton		Historical account of Venice
	3	Notes From a Roman Terrace		Joan Marble Black Swan		Living in a sixteenth-century palazzo in Rome. Garden Lore
	4	Not Built in a Day		George Sullivan Carroll & Graf		Architecture of Rome
O	1	The Olive Route		Carol Drinkwater W&N		Quest for the olive tree’s secrets. An odyssey through sometimes dangerous places in the Mediterranean
P
	1	Pasquale’sNose		Michael Rips Little, Brown and Company		A lawyer runs away to a small Etruscan town with his wife and new baby and finds very eccentric people. Non-fiction.
	2	Preserving the World’s Great Cities		Anthony Tung Three Rivers		Many cities and includes Venice, Rome
R	1	The Reluctant Tuscan		Phil Doran Gotham		Hollywood writer is dragged by wife to tiny Italian village where they renovate a 300 year old farmhouse
S
	1		Sicilian Carousel		Lawrence Durrell Marlowe and Company	Travels through Sicily
	2		Sicilian Odyssey		Francine Prose National Geographic	A portrait of modern Italy steeped in the past
	3		Sicilian Summer		Brian Johnston A&U	Flamboyant family dramas, dangerous village politics and age-old feuds
	4		Sixteen Pleasures		Robert Hellenga Bantam	Margo is a “mud angel” rescuing manuscripts after the Florence flood. Fiction.
	5		Starting with Tuscany		Giovanna Peel Birch Tree	Italian woman returns to her birth place after 30 years. Non-fiction.
	6		Stone Boudoir		Theresa Maggio Perseus	Travels through the hidden villages of Sicily
	7		Stones of Venice		John Ruskin Da Capo Press	Venice observed :historical and anecdotal.
	8		Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons		Matthew Fort Thomas Dunne	Travels through Sicily on a Vespa
T	1		A Thousand Days in Tuscany		Marlena de Blasi Algonquin	Still falling in love but this time in Tuscany
	2		A Thousand Days in Venice		Marlena de Blasi Virago	Real life falling in love in Venice.
	3		Too much Tuscan Sun		Dario Castagno Globe Pequot	Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide
	4		Tuscan Holiday		Holly Chamberlain Kensington	Mother and engaged daughter holiday in Tuscany where daughter falls in love. Fiction.
U	1 (3)		Under the Tuscan Sun		Frances Mayes Broadway	Buying and renovating a villa. And food.

V
	1	Vanilla Beans and Brodo	Isabella Drusi Pocket Books	Real life in the hills of Tuscany
	2	Venice Lion City	Garry Wills Simon and Schuster	History of Venice
	3	A Venetian Affair	Andrea di Robilant Harper	A true story of impossible love in the 18th C
	4	Venetian Dreaming	Paula Weideger Washington Square	Present day and historical information.Exploration of the city
	5	Venetian Stories	Jane Turner Rylands Anchor	Portrayal of a dozen Venetians: Countess, gondolier, postman, etc.
	6	Venice Observed (2)	Mary McCarthy Harcourt	Literary and lovely chronicle of the charms of the city.
	7	Villa Serena	Domenica de Rosa Headline Review	Dodgy fiction. Woman finds true love in Monte Albano
	8	A Vineyard in Tuscany	Ferenc Mate Norton	Two daring New Yorkers convert and abandoned ruin into a fairy-tale home and wine estate
W	1	Wisdom of Tuscany	Ferenc Mate Norton	Shows how to leave urban life behind and enjoy the “good Life” in Tuscany
	2	Within Tuscany	Matthew Spender Penguin	Painter and Sculptor’s Italian Ephemera
	3	What Casanova Told Me	Susan Swan Bloomsbury	Modern and historical. Reading of 18th C journal and modern love