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Lombardy & the Italian Lakes, Cadogan Guides
Dana Facaros
GUIDEBOOK 2006 PAPER 345 PAGES
A guide in the respected British series, this comprehensive look at northwest Italy from Milan to Verona and Bergamo includes insightful cultural and historical background, and up-to-date practical information on hotels, restaurants and bars. With an introductory photo-essay and 25 excellent maps.
(ITL44, $19.95)
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)
Italian Days
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
TRAVEL NARRATIVE 1998 PAPER 479 PAGES
FAVORITE
A literary celebration, portrait and guide to Italy and the Italians. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison writes with warmth and depth of her journey from Milan south to Calabria in this sprightly account. It's one of our favorite books about place.
(ITL02, $15.00)
Italian Lakes Map
Litographia Artistica Cartographica
MAP
A detailed map of the Italian lakes region, including Orta, Lugano, Como and Maggiore, at the excellent scale of 1:100,000, produced in Italy.
(ITL431, $10.95)
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)
Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary
Rick Steves
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary; also includes Steves' insight into how to break the ice and make friends around the world.
(ITL424, $7.95)
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)
La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind
Beppe Severgnini
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
NEW
A guide to the Italian character, hugely popular in Italy, including the apparently neverending passion for beauty, disorder and high emotion. Severgnini opens the book with a snapshot of the hubbub at Malpensa, moving on to Tuscany, Rome, Naples and Sardinia.
(ITL718, $12.95)
Art and Authority in Renaissance Milan
Evelyn S. Welch
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A scholarly study of art, architecture and patronage in Renaissance Milan.
(ITL405, $75.00)
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)
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
LITERATURE
Set in snowy Switzerland and the rainy Italian lake country during World War I, this semi-autobiographical novel chronicles the romance between a British nurse and an American ambulance driver.
(ITL384, $15.00)
Italy in Mind
Alice Powers
LITERATURE
A terrific collection of some of the best literary writing on Italy, including Melville, Lawrence, Henry James, Mary McCarthy and many others. Great reading.
(ITL39, $14.95)
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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