Italia

There are many farmhouses in Tuscany, but few are quite so magical as Arniano. It is here, in this 18th-century podere, that Amber Guinness grew up and learned to cook. And it is …

'With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis - and shows how some of the things those …

This new, fourth edition of Bradt's Italy: Abruzzo remains the only standalone English-language guide to this beautiful, increasingly favoured part of Italy. Abruzzo offers the …

'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of …

'The latest book from the inestimable and seemingly irrepressible Simon Warren.'thewashingmachinepostFrom the Gavia Pass to Mount Etna, from The Stelvio to The Zoncalan, these …

An essential guide to the strange, sometimes sinister culture of contemporary Italy.When Tobias Jones first travelled to Italy, he expected to discover the pastoral bliss described …

Italia tulvii iholle jännittävässä ja nautinnollisessa dekkarissaEtsivätoimiston osakas, italialais-suomalainen Arianna de Bellis elää ylellistä mutta yksinäistä elämää Roomassa. …

A fresh telling of the rise and fall of the House of Medici, the family that dominated political and cultural life in Florence for three centuries.

In recent years, Naples has been the subject of countless books, films and TV series, making it even more difficult to imagine a Neapolitan normality, if it exists at all. As …

En av 1900-talets stora memoarböcker»Carlo Levi skildrar vardagen och flera av byns invånare med djup respekt men också med ett mått av förtvivlan. Känslan av att aldrig riktigt …