This inspired anthology features excerpts from 29 writers and artists, many Italian, interspersed with practical suggestions for travelers and commentary by editor Susan Cahill. Organized by period, she includes Ovid, Michelangelo, John Updike, and Henry James, Sigmund Freud, and Muriel Spark among other. The book concludes with an interview with Fellini and Ekberg. Cahill as also compiled and edited For the Love of Ireland and Desiring Italy.  (ITL573, $14.95)

Rome