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Northern Italy   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Insight Guide Northern Italy  •   Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 404 PAGES
This handsome guide to northern Italy gives a profusely illustrated overview of the region. Featuring concise essays by well regarded authors on the history, culture and nature of the region, it contains hundreds of photos and maps, as well as some limited practical information. (ITL190, $24.95)
  Insight Guide Northern Italy
The Italian Renaissance  •  J. H. Plumb
HISTORY •  2001 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES
A well-written history of the Renaissance, its artists and thinkers, originally published in 1961, with chapters on Florence, Milan, Rome and Venice, Michelangelo, Da Vinci and Women of the Renaissance. (ITL562, $16.00)
  The Italian Renaissance
Italian Neighbors  •  Tim Parks
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2003 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES
This sparkling memoir by the British novelist captures the travails and delights of life in Verona with charm and wit. Perceptive and supremely entertaining, Parks is an excellent interpreter of the Italian character. (ITL16, $14.00)
  Italian Neighbors
Northern Italy Map  •   Touring Club Italiano
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A road map of Northern Italy at a scale of 1:400,000. (ITL38, $12.95)
  Northern Italy Map
 

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Blue Guide Northern Italy, from the Alps to the Adriatic  •  Paul Blanchard   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This guide by a popular tour leader provides a thorough overview of the history, art and architecture of northern Italy from Trieste across to the Valle d'Aosta, Venice, Verona, Milan, Genoa and Bologna. (ITL48, $32.95)
 
 
Cadogan Italian Riviera & Piemonte  •  Michael Pauls  •  Dana Facaros   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An authoritative guide to Liguria, including Cinque Terre, Portofino, Genoa and lesser-known destinations. Strong on practical information, it's also a good overview of the history, culture and cuisine of the region. (ITL407, $19.95)
 
 
Eyewitness Guide Milan and the Lakes  •   Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This superb guide to Milan and the Italian lakes features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the area's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry. (ITL165, $20.00)
 
 
Fodor's Venice's 25 Best  •   Citypack   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A shirt-pocket guide to Venice, this slim book includes an excellent map of the center of the city and essential information on its highlights, including restaurant recommendations and sightseeing. (ITL106, $11.95)
 
 
Lombardy & the Italian Lakes, Cadogan Guides  •  Dana Facaros   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A guide in the respected British series, this comprehensive look at northwest Italy includes insightful cultural and historical background, and up-to-date practical information. (ITL44, $19.95)
 
 
Made in Italy, A Shopper's Guide  •  Laura Morelli   • GUIDEBOOK  •  The second edition of Morelli's expert survey of handcrafted Italian shops and products from Murano glass to ceramics, jewelry and leather. (ITL473, $24.95)
 
 
A Ligurian Kitchen, Recipes And Tales from the Italian Riviera  •  Laura Giannatempo   • FOOD  •  A charming, personal cookbook with an abundance of authentic Ligurian recipes that can easily be replicated in an American kitchen. (ITL862, $29.00)
 
 
Biba's Italy, Favorite Recipes from the Splendid Cities  •  Biba Caggiano   • FOOD  •  Ms. Caggiano focuses on regional, seasonal food in this omnibus cookbook (featuring 100 recipes), menu planner and travel guide to Rome, Florence, Bologna, Milan and Venice. Nicely produced, this handsome sepia-toned book includes recommended restaurants, cafes and markets in each city. (ITL777, $29.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
Italy, A Short History  •  Harry Hearder   • HISTORY  •  Elegantly written, generous and enormously 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 Italians  •  Luigi Barzini   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The definitive portrait of the Italian people, this is a classic, scholarly essay on the Italian character. Though first published in 1964, it's still worth reading for its insight, grace and wit. (ITL05, $16.00)
 
 
The Renaissance, A Short History  •  Paul Johnson   • HISTORY  •  The history, background, literature, sculpture, paintings and architecture of the Renaissance in just over 200 lively, thought-provoking pages. (ITL774, $12.95)
 
 
Art in Renaissance Italy  •  Gary M. Radke  •  John T. Paoletti   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A complete, scholarly and remarkably readable overview of Italian Renaissance painting, sculpture and architecture. The authors examine the political, social and artistic currents that produced the unprecedented art of the 15th-17th centuries. With 600 illustrations, more than 200 in color. (ITL412, $85.00)
 
 
A Traveller in Italy  •  H.V. Morton  •  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The much-beloved, enduring account of Morton's ramblings in the temples, tombs and villas of Tuscany, Lombardy, Emilia and the Veneto. (ITL417, $25.00)
 
 
D.H. Lawrence and Italy  •  D.H. Lawrence  •  Tim Parks   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  This omnibus Penguin Classics edition includes three travel tales, each very different in tone and all wonderful: "Sea and Sardinia" is a nostalgic look at traditional ways of life; "Twilight in Italy" an evocation of Lawrence's memorable stay on Lake Garda; and "Etruscan Places" his musings on ancient sites, including the painted tombs of Tarquinia. (ITL62, $18.00)
 
 
Extra Virgin, A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera  •  Annie Hawes   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A memoir of travels and life in Liguria, where the Hawe sisters ventured and stayed. In this refreshingly candid account, the English sisters end up buying a house and learning the local customs and eccentricities of their neighbors in Diano San Pietro. (ITL539, $14.95)
 
 
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere  •  Jan Morris   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A loving celebration of the city and its faded glory. Morris, who first visited the city as a soldier during WWII, is especially good at evoking the varied history and fortunes of Trieste. (ITL347, $15.00)
 
 
A Long Finish, An Aurelio Zen Mystery  •  Michael Dibdin   • MYSTERY  •  Another enjoyable "Aurelio Zen Mystery" from Michael Dibdin, this time private investigator Zen is in Rome and Alba, enjoying wonderful wine and food while uncovering a murderous plot that may jeopardize the Piemontese wine industry. (ITL193, $13.95)
 
 
Back to Bologna  •  Michael Dibdin   • MYSTERY  •  Dibdin shows a lighter touch in this installment in the marvelous Aurelio Zen mysteries. (ITL746, $12.95)
 
 
Death at La Fenice  •  Donna Leon   • MYSTERY  •  The first of the tremendously good Guido Brunetti mysteries, all set in the author's beloved Venice, in which a famous conductor is found dead at the celebrated theater of the title. (ITL555, $13.95)
 
 
Enchanted April  •  Elizabeth Von Arnim  •  Cathleen Schine   • LITERATURE  •  In this delightful book, four Englishwomen are awakened by self-discovery and the power of their friendship on a stay in Italy in the 1920s. (ITL316, $14.95)
 
 
Portofino, A Novel  •  Frank Schaeffer   • LITERATURE  •  Set in the 1960s, this coming-of-age tale follows a young boy's encounters with the sights and people of the seaside town of Portofino, while he avoids his missionary parents' constant bickering and their attempts to convert the locals. (ITL164, $15.00)
 
 
The Betrothed  •  Alessandro Manzoni   • LITERATURE  •  Manzoni's 1827 classic, by many accounts the first modern Italian novel, concerns star-crossed lovers in 17th-century Lombardy. Hugely popular in Italy, it has been made into several films and even a stage musical. (ITL414, $17.00)
 
 
The Devil in the Hills  •  Cesare Pavese   • LITERATURE  •  This book, the most personal of the many stories, poems and novels of Pavese, follows the summer adventures of three young men in the hills, vineyards and villages of the author's native Piedmont. (ITL430, $23.95)
 
 


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