God created this spectacular spa, Terme di Saturnia just improved it a little
By Madelyn Miller

ITALY GUIDEBOOKS

THE COMPLETE IDIOT’S GUIDE to ITALIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
By Gabrielle Euvino with Michael San Filippo
www.idiotsguides.com

ITALY INSIGHT GUIDES
www.insightguides.com

FODOR’S ITALY
Shows you the way on and off the beaten path
www.fodors.com

Rick Steves Italy
Avalon Publishing
www.ricksteves.com

BERLITZ POCKET GUIDE ITALY
www.berlitzpublishing.com

SPEAK LIKE AN ITALIAN

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THE COMPLETE IDIOT’S GUIDE TO LEARNING ITALIAN
By Gabrielle Euvino
www.idiotsguides.com

THE POCKET IDIOT’S GUIDE to Italian
By Gabrielle Euvino
www.idiotsguides.com

Rick Steve’s ITALIAN PHRASEBOOK AND DICTIONARY
Avalon Travel Publishing
www.Ricksteves.com

BERLITZ Surviving in Italian
A handy mini phrase book with maximum information
www.berlitzpublishing.com

BERLITZ Shopping in Italian
Pocket-size with easy to read pronunciation
www.berlitzpublishing.com

EAT LIKE AN ITALIAN

BERLITZ Eating and Drinking in Italian
Convenient pocket size
www.berlitzpublishing.com

How to Pronounce French, German and Italian Wine Names
By Dianna Bellucci
They also include a bonus of Austrian, Spanish and Portugese Wine Names
Luminosa Publishing
www.howtopronounce.com

LANGENSCHEIDT’S POCKET MENU READER ITALY
A gastronomic dictionary, phrasebook and guide

EUROPE’S TOP RESTAURANTS 2004
Zagat Survey
www.zagat.com

TASTE ITALIAN FOOD AT HOME

Try Sacla’s Classic Basil Pesto Sauce on your pasta at home. Robust bail leaves, fresh Grana Padano and Pecorino Romano cheese, ripened pine nuts, biting garlic and pure olive oil.

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TUSCANY AND UMBRIA

Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria
By James Lasdun and Pia Davis
This book brings walkers and food lovers into the dazzling landscapes and hidden delights of two the Italy’s loveliest provinces.
A Penguin Book
www.penguin.com

ITALIAN LITERATURE TO GET YOU IN THE MOOD

VENETIAN STORIES
By Jane Turner Ruylands
Pantheon Books
www.pantheon.com
The thoroughly engaging characters who are the focus of these stories are from different backgrounds and various Venetian neighborhoods, but their lives—and the stories—overlap and intersect in surprising and playful ways.

CASA ROSA
By Francesca Marciano
(author of Rules of the Wild)
Pantheon Books
www.pantheonbooks.com
A mesmerizing story of three generations of a twentieth-century Italian family who lived in a farmous in Puglia.

JOHN PAUL II
A personal portrait of the Pope and the Man
By Ray Flynn
St. Martin’s Press
www.stmartins.com

BEHIND LOCKED DOORS
By Frederic Baumgartner
The author is a former president of the American Catholic Historical Association and takes readers behind the scenes and offers an insider’s view on the highly secretive Papal Conclave.
Palgrave Macmillan
www.palgrave-usa.com

DANCES WITH LUIGI
By Paul Paolicelli
A moving an intimate memoir of award-winning television journalist Paul Paolicelli’s ancestral search.

UNDER THE SOUTHERN SUN
By Paul Paolicelli
Stories of the Real Italy and the Americans it Created
Part Travelogue, part journalism and part sociological study, this book follows Paolicelli as he explores Southern Italy dealing with the concept of heritage.
Thomas Dunne Books
A division of St Martin’s press
www.stmartins.com

VENICE AGAINST THE SEA
A city Besieged
By John Keahy
In a few years, much of Venice may be under water..can this beautiful city be saved?
Thomas Dunne Books
A division of St Martin’s press
www.stmartins.com

COOKBOOK TO TEMPT YOUR PALATE

MANGIAMO Let’s Eat!
A collection of family recies by Sylvia Sebastiani
Sebastiani Vineyards