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Every Day in Tuscany, Seasons of an Italian Life

by Frances Mayes

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2011
• PAPER
• 288 PAGES

Twenty years later Mayes is still besotted by Italy -- her house, the tumbling geraniums, the people and the food -- all lovingly documented in her best memoir yet. With interludes in Portofino, Assisi and Rome and a focus on Renaissance master artist Luca Signorelli. (ITA124, $15.00)

Tuscan Country, A Photographer's Journey

by Wes Walker

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2007
• HARD COVER
• 160 PAGES

Walker captures the allure of the hill towns, including Siena, Lucca, Pisa and smaller cities and villages in 100 luminous color photographs. (ITL848, $29.95)

Insight Guide Tuscany

by Insight Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2009
• PAPER
• 304 PAGES

An illustrated guide in the popular series, noteworthy for its maps and illuminating essays on history, art, food and culture. (ITL156, $18.99)

Tuscany Map

by Touring Club Italiano

• 2011
• MAP

A detailed map at a scale of 1:200,000. Imported from Italy. (ITL102, $14.95)

 

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Florence Map

by Borch Maps

• 2006
• MAP

A detailed, plastic-covered city map of Florence at a scale of 1:7,000. (ITL59, $8.95)

Blue Guide Italy Food Companion

by Blue Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• PAPER
• 224 PAGES

This pocket guide to ordering, understanding and enjoying the best of Italian food can be used in preparation for a visit to Italy, or as a handy reference while you're there. (ITA195, $14.95)

Culture Smart! Italy

by Charles Abbott

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2008
• PAPER
• 168 PAGES

A concise, no-nonsense guide to Italian customs, etiquette and culture along with helpful travel advice. (ITL877, $9.95)

Footprint Tuscany

by Rebecca Ford

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2009
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

Featuring hundred of color photographs and maps, this informative guide balances an overview of history, culture and nature with helpful travel information. Includes Florence. (ITA91, $21.95)

Frommer's Florence & the Best of Tuscany Day by Day

by Darwin Porter

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2009
• PAPER
• 228 PAGES

A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring remarkably good suggestions for everything from food, hotels and neighborhoods to shopping. With a separate foldout map of the city center. (ITL737, $13.99)

Lonely Planet Italian Phrasebook

by Lonely Planet

• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
• 2011
• PAPER
• 260 PAGES

A handy palm-size phrasebook for the traveler. (ITL531, $8.99)

Made in Italy, A Shopper's Guide

by Laura Morelli

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2008
• PAPER
• 208 PAGES

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)

Rick Steves' Florence & Tuscany

by Rick Steves

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2012
• PAPER
• 388 PAGES

With his focus on value and the authentic, travel enthusiast Rick Steves offers excellent practical advice on where to go, what to do and where to eat and sleep in Tuscany. (ITL794, $19.99)

The Food Lover's Guide to Florence, With Culinary Excursions in Tuscany

by Emily Wise Miller

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2007
• PAPER

Miller polled neighbors, friends, cooks and ordinary folk for this delectable guide to 125 eateries, organized by neighborhood. (ITL841, $14.99)

A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany

by Beth Elon

• FOOD
• 2009
• PAPER
• 320 PAGES

A resident in Tuscany for 30 years, Elon presents 100 recipes from a hand-picked selection of favorite restaurants in this charming cookbook and travel guide. With 10 itineraries highlighting largely undiscovered regions of Tuscany, restaurants, trattorie, shops, wineries, olive oil producers, markets and food festivals. (ITL729, $17.95)

The Tuscan Sun Cookbook, Recipes from Our Italian Kitchen

by Frances Mayes

• FOOD
• 2012
• HARD COVER
• 224 PAGES
• COMING IN MARCH

A collection of recipes that celebrate the rustic culinary tradition of Tuscany. Includes color photographs. (ITA294, $29.99)

La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind

by Beppe Severgnini

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2007
• PAPER
• 288 PAGES

Italians themselves love this guide to the Italian character, which 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, $14.00)

La Bella Lingua

by Dianne Hales

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2010
• PAPER
• 336 PAGES
• NEW

Inebriated with the sounds of Italian, lovesick for its phrases and enamored of its earthy idioms, Hales, "a sensible woman of sturdy Polish stock," dives into the Italian of the piazza, literature, movies and streets in this charming memoir. (ITA26, $15.00)

The House of Medici, Its Rise and Fall

by Christopher Hibbert

• HISTORY
• 1982
• PAPER
• 364 PAGES

A well-written, entertaining history of the Medicis in Renaissance Florence. Great to read before going to Florence, where the influence of the Medicis and the artists they supported is still very much in evidence. (ITL135, $16.99)

The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany

by James Bentley | Hugh Palmer

• HISTORY
• 1997
• HARD COVER
• 224 PAGES

This handsome oversize picture book is a portrait of the Tuscan landscape and people. It contains maps, a travel guide and many color photographs. (ITL261, $40.00)

The Renaissance, A Short History

by Paul Johnson

• HISTORY
• 2002
• PAPER
• 196 PAGES

The history, background, literature, sculpture, paintings and architecture of the Renaissance in just over 200 lively, thought-provoking pages. (ITL774, $15.00)

Tuscany, Inside the Light

by Joel Meyerowitz

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 2010
• HARD COVER
• 162 PAGES

With 79 color plates and an enclosed 10x12 inch color print, these full-page photographs by the remarkable Bill Meyerowitz trace Tuscan landscapes, rough stone architecture and street scenes from a winter afternoon through spring and summer to the last light of autumn. (ITA231, $40.00)

The Art of the Renaissance

by Peter Murray

• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• 1992
• PAPER
• 286 PAGES

A classic, illustrated survey of the world of the Renaissance and its art. With chapters on Florence and its artists, the Netherlands, early illustrated books and many individual artists. (ITL14, $18.95)

On The Road with Francis of Assisi

by Linda Bird Francke

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 2006
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES

Assisi wandered for 20 years, affording Newsweek editor Francke and her patient husband plenty to see and do in the piazzas, sanctuaries and chapels of Assisi, Siena, Bologna, Venice, Gubbio, Rome and other choice spots. (ITL647, $15.95)

Songbirds, Truffles and Wolves, An American Naturalist in Italy

by Gary Paul Nabhan

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1994
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES

The author, a poet and naturalist, heads along the Franciscan Way from Florence to Assisi. This most unusual travelogue combines natural history, spirituality and a lively appreciation of local food and food traditions. A print-on-demand paperback. (ITL99, $16.00)

War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944

by Iris Origo | Denis Mack Smith

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 1995
• PAPER
• 239 PAGES

A diary of day-to-day heroism and fortitude. The author and her family take children, deserters, escaped prisoners, and Jews fleeing the advancing Germans into their home in Tuscany. (ITL219, $14.95)

Amazing Disgrace

by James Hamilton-Paterson

• LITERATURE
• 2006
• PAPER

Darker than Hamilton-Paterson's previous outing (Cooking With Fernet) starring Gerald Samper, this hilarious sequel skewers British pretension and the glories of expatriate life in Tuscany. (ITL806, $14.95)

Death of an Englishman

by Magdalen Nabb

• MYSTERY
• 2001
• PAPER
• 272 PAGES

The debut of Nabb's highly readable, atmospheric Marshal Guarnaccia series, set in Florence on Christmas Eve. (ITL639, $14.00)

Summer's Lease

by John Mortimer

• MYSTERY
• 1991
• PAPER
• 288 PAGES

A well-paced mystery set in the Tuscan countryside, by Sir John Morimer, author of Rumpole of the Bailey. Poor Molly Pargeter's idyll is upset when the water supply fails and a neighbor dies. John Gielgud starred in the Masterpiece Theatre adaptation as the seriously mischievous Haverford Downs. (ITL580, $18.00)

Tuscany and Umbria, The Collected Traveler

by Barrie Kerper

• ANTHOLOGY
• 2010
• PAPER
• 608 PAGES

Kerper hauled out her clipping files, interviewed her friends and raided her library for this inspired miscellany -- a quirky guide to the history, food, and landscape of Tuscany and Umbria. With travel essays, recommended reading and suggested hotels, restaurants, sights and shops. (ITL389, $19.00)

Tuscany For Beginners

by Imogen Edwards-Jones

• LITERATURE
• 2005
• PAPER
• 323 PAGES

In this deliciously wicked tale, British novelist Edward-Jones skewers the pretensions of the English abroad, taking as her target the sodden proprietress of a mediocre B&B in Tuscany. (ITL609, $13.95)

Tuscany in Mind

by Alice Powers

• ANTHOLOGY
• 2005
• PAPER
• 400 PAGES

A fine literary anthology covering the region's history, geography, culture and (of course) food, featuring contributions by luminaries including D.H. Lawrence and Robert Browning. (ITL607, $14.95)

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