Susan Cahill assembles an all-star group of mostly 19th- and 20th-century writers on Italy, all women, for this evocative anthology, including choice excerpts from the travel writing, fiction, poetry and prose of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, Kate Simon, Iris Origo, Rose Macaulay, Francine Prose and Barbara Grizzuti Harrison.  (ITL732, $16.00)