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Insight Guide Southern Italy
Roger Williams
GUIDEBOOK 2006 PAPER 381 PAGES
A colorful guide to the culture, history and attractions of Italy south of Rome, featuring hundreds of photographs and excellent local and regional maps.
(ITL458, $23.95)
The Italians
Luigi Barzini
CULTURAL PORTRAIT 1996 PAPER 352 PAGES
The definitive portrait of the Italian people, noteworthy for its insight, grace and wit. It's a classic, scholarly essay on the Italian character, still worthwhile though first published in 1964. Much historical information is included. Highly recommended.
(ITL05, $16.00)
Stolen Figs, And Other Adventures in Calabria
Mark Rotella
TRAVEL NARRATIVE 2004 PAPER 320 PAGES
The sparkling tale of a man's adventures in the land of his forefathers. The grandson of a Calabrian, Rotella writes warmly of this hardscrabble region that has produced more immigrants to the Unites States than any other region. He is a refreshingly candid, companionable guide to landscapes, people, history and (of course) the food of the region.
(ITL465, $15.00)
Christ Stopped at Eboli, The Story of a Year
Carlo Levi Frances Frenaye
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2006 PAPER 268 PAGES
Set in Lucania the south of Italy, where Levi was banished by Mussolini for his political activity, this affecting memoir tells of the people, traditions and life in the region. A physician, writer, and painter. Levi writes movingly of poverty and lack of health care in Alsiano. Translated by Frances Frenaye.
(ITL09, $14.00)
Southern Italy Map
Touring Club Italiano
MAP
A regional map of Italy, stretching from Rome to the southern tip, at a scale of 1:400,000. Features topographical relief.
(ITL222, $12.95)
Calabria Map
Touring Club Italiano
Detailed map of Reggio Calabria Province, scale 1:150,000.
(ITL496, $12.95)
Campania Region Map
Touring Club Italiano
A colorful map of Campania, including Naples and the Amalfi Coast.
(ITL116, $12.95)
Italy South Map
Michelin
A map of southern Italy, covering Molise, Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria, at a scale of 1:400,000.
(ITL109, $8.95)
Puglia Map
Touring Club Italiano
The locals' map of Puglia, at a scale of 1:200,000.
(ITL425, $12.95)
Blue Guide Southern Italy
Paul Blanchard
GUIDEBOOK
A comprehensive guide to Southern Italy and especially its archaeology, history and culture. With maps and site plans. Blanchard, a popular tour guide, is also the author of the Blue Guide to Northern Italy.
(ITL257, $34.95)
Lonely Planet Puglia & Basilicata
Paula Hardy
GUIDEBOOK
A practical guide to two of Southern Italy's up-and-coming destinations, featuring good maps, an overview of culture, history and nature and detailed, practical travel information.
(ITL978, $19.99)
National Geographic Traveler Naples And Southern Italy
Tim Jepson
GUIDEBOOK
A guidebook to the region, published by National Geographic in their attractive, visual style. The guide features many photographs, maps and good information on history, nature, culture and travel.
(ITL802, $21.95)
A Taste of Southern Italy, Delicious Recipes and a Dash of Culture
Marlena de Blasi
FOOD
More than just a cookbook, this evocative text brings the spirit and landscape of Southern Italy to life. Full of stories, impressions, useful information and rustic recipes.
(ITL785, $25.95)
The Food of Italy
Waverly Root
FOOD
Evocative of Italy and its diverse cuisine, this classic book, organized geographically, offers a cook's tour of the country. It's a well-informed and wonderful culinary guide.
(ITL75, $19.95)
Between Salt Water and Holy Water, A History of Southern Italy
Tommaso Astarita
HISTORY
Astarita captures the fanfare, rivalry and changing fortunes of Sicily from antiquity through Norman, Spanish and Bourbon rule to unification and the 20th century.
(ITL597, $15.95)
Italy, A Short History
Harry Hearder
HISTORY
Elegantly written, generous and informative, this compact book takes in the sweep of Italian history from the Roman Republic through the Renaissance, World War II and up to the present.
(ITL56, $24.99)
La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
Beppe Severgnini
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Hugely popular in Italy, this guide to the Italian character addresses the apparently never-ending passion for beauty, disorder and high emotion. Severgnini opens the book with a snapshot of the hubbub at Malpensa Airport, then moves on to Tuscany, Rome, Naples and Sardinia.
(ITL718, $12.95)
The Ancient Mediterranean
Michael Grant
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Grant explores the realms of archaeology, geography, art and economics to sketch this classic portrait of the ancient world, from prehistory through the Roman Imperium, and the influence on western civilization.
(MED10, $18.00)
Italian Days
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
FAVORITE
Grizzuti Harrison writes with warmth and depth of her journey from Milan south to Calabria in this sprightly account of Italy and the Italians.
(ITL02, $15.00)
Italian Journey, 1786-1788
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
W.H. Auden
Elizabeth Meyer
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The journals and letters from Goethe's 'grand tour' of southern Italy as translated by W.H. Auden. In addition to much musing on philosophy and art, it includes some wonderful writing on the Italian landscape.
(ITL144, $17.00)
Seasons in Basilicata, A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village
David Yeadon
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
This warm-spirited account of a year in the village of Aliano in Italy's rural south. Yeadon finds an altogether different place than that encountered by Carols Levi (Christ Stopped in Eboli) in 1935.
(ITL585, $14.95)
Unto the Sons
Gay Talese
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
A wide-ranging memoir of the Talese family, from their origin in the Calabrian town of Maida through emigration to the United States in the early 20th century and settling in Ocean City, New Jersey.
(ITL145, $15.95)
Italy in Mind
Alice Powers
LITERATURE
A terrific collection of some of the best literary writing on Italy, including pieces by Melville, Lawrence, Henry James, Mary McCarthy and many others.
(ITL39, $14.95)
The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story
Horace Walpole
LITERATURE
First published in 1764, Walpole's classic Gothic novel takes place in and around the 15th-century castle on the Adriatic.
(ITL631, $8.95)
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