Reading about a country before visiting it can truly enrich the way you experience your day to day activities.
While traveling through the Italian cities such as Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples and many more, having read some of these books well help you better understand the art and history you will be immersed in.
Here below we have listed a few of our favorite books that depict Italy in different times in history and geography. There are no guide books listed as we wanted this list to be a literary homage to Italy.
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“Galileo’s Daughter”
Dava Sobel |
“The Agony and the Ecstasy” Irving Stone |
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“Under the Tuscan Sun”
Frances Mayes |
“Angels and Demons”
Dan Brown |
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“A Room with a View”
E M Forster |
“The Name of the Rose”
Umberto Eco |
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