Travelers' Tales Italy Author:Anne Calcagno (Editor) This newly designed collection of adventures in Italy takes the reader to a land of magical extremes -- of ancient verities and modern vitality. Sculptors, olive harvesters, art historians, and cooks people these tales, and their stories are as evocative as opera. The book simmers with romance, culture -- and the best food on earth. Authors incl... more »ude Tim Parks, Patricia Hampl, Mary Taylor Simeti, Luigi Barzini, Gary Paul Nabhan, and many others.
A Fiume runs through it / Thom Elkjer --
The measure of all things / Libby Lubin --
Facciamo le Corna / Tim Parks --
Pornosaint of the extinguished lights / Andrea Lee --
A bank in Palermo --
Natalie Galli --
The olive harvest / Mary Taylor Simeti --
Baby's a bonus / Clara Hemphill --
Five ways of escape / Jonathan Keates --
Venice again / Maureen Anne Jennings --
Imagining the flood / Robert Hellenga --
My Roman intimacies / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison --
In the shadow of Vesuvius / Thomas Belmonte --
Signor Bananas / Duncan Fallowell --
Mediolanum / H.V. Morton --
The invisible Trattoria / Miranda Mowbray --
Underground Rome / Tom Mueller --
Living briefly like a Roman / Susan Spano --
Cinque Terre / Georgia I. Hesse --
The working world of Venice / William G. Scheller --
Feast in Puglia / Fred L. Gardaphe --
Walking to Assisi / Patricia Hampl --
On climbing the dome of St. Peter's / Jeanne Conte --
Etruscan sunlight / Frances Mayes --
A Trulli rich woman / Kelly Simon --
Ancient islands / Theresa M. Maggio --
The hall of maps / James Gardner --
Sibling rivalry, Italian style / Elizabeth Roper Marcus --
The sands of thyme / Bob Shacochis --
What's in a name? / Vince Sturla --
Adventures in leather / Catherine Thorpe --
Seravezza / Matthew Spender --
Night swimmer / Kevin Di Pirro --
Body and soul / Stanley Crouch --
Big butts and walnuts / Douglas Rennie --
Indirections to Rome / Donald Gecewicz --
Rocking the gondola / Jan Warner --
The errant steps of wooden shoes / Adria Bernardi --