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We feature a handpicked selection of travel guides, maps, literature, books on art, nature and culture, all designed to help you get more out of your travels to Northern Italy . Order an essential package, and we'll ship any additional items for free.
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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)
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)
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)
Northern Italy Map
Touring Club Italiano
MAP
A road map of Northern Italy at a scale of 1:400,000.
(ITL38, $12.95)
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
This shirt-pocket guide includes an excellent map of the city center and essential information on Venice's 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
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 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, $26.99)
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, $13.95)
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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