Too Much Tuscan Sun: Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide
10 best books like Too Much Tuscan Sun: Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide (Dario Castagno): As the Romans Do: An American Family's Italian Odyssey, Passion on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy, The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria, Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy, The Hills of Tuscany, An Italian Education, An Italian Affair, In Tuscany, Extra Virgin (Italy series, #1), The Reluctant Tuscan: How I Discovered My Inner Italian
A celebration of the character and style of one of the world's most spectacular cities! This vibrant insider's view of the most mature city on earth is the perfect companion for anyone who loves anything Italian. In 1995, after a twenty-year love affair with Italy, Alan Epstein fulfilled his dream to...
Passion on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy
| Author | Sergio Esposito |
| ISBN | 0767926072 |
As I was re-shelving some new nonfiction books a few weeks ago, an Italian villa on the cover of Sergio Esposito’s Passion on the Vine caught my eye. After perusing the description on the inside flap, I checked out the book and spent the next several days traveling all over Italy with the author--a native...
The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria
| Author | Marlena de Blasi |
| ISBN | 1565124731 |
With the breathless anticipation that seduced her readers to fall in love with Venice and then Tuscany, Marlena de Blasi now takes us on a new journey as she moves with her husband, Fernando, to Orvieto, a large and ancient city in Italy's Umbria. Having neither an edge to a sea nor a face to a foreign land,...
| Author | Michael Tucker |
| ISBN | 0871139626 |
The actor Michael Tucker and his wife, the actress Jill Eikenberry, having sent their last child off to college, were vacationing in Italy when they happened upon a small cottage nestled in the Umbrian countryside. The three-hundred-fifty-year-old rustico sat perched on a hill in the verdant Spoleto...
| Author | Ferenc Máté |
| ISBN | 0385334419 |
The true-life adventure of a couple who did what most of us only dream of doing, Ferenc Mate's enticing, beautifully written memoir of their first year in this enchanted place brings to life the real Tuscany: the neighbors, the spectacular hills where The English Patient was filmed, country life, the...
| Author | Tim Parks |
| ISBN | 0380727609 |
Tim Parks' first bestseller, "Italian Neighbors," chronicled his initiation into Italian society and cultural life. Reviewers everywhere hailed it as a bravissimo performance. Now he turns to his children -- born and bred in Italy -- and their milieu in a small village near Verona. With the splendid...
| Author | Laura Fraser |
| ISBN | 0375724850 |
When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to leave some of her sadness behind. There, on the island of Ischia, she meets M., an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized love of life. What they both assume will be a casual...
| Author | Frances Mayes |
| ISBN | 0767905350 |
From the bestselling author whose memoirs Under the Sun and Bella Tuscany have captured the voluptuousness of Italian life comes a lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany's people, food, landscapes, and art. In Tuscany celebrates the abundant pleasures of life in Italy as it is lived at home,...
| Author | Annie Hawes |
| ISBN | 0140294236 |
A small stone house deep among the olive groves of Liguria, going for the price of a dodgy second-hand car. Annie Hawes and her sister, on the spot by chance, have no plans whatsoever to move to the Italian Riviera but find naturally that it's an offer they can't refuse. The laugh is on the Foreign Females...
| Author | Phil Doran |
| ISBN | 1592401899 |
After years of working on a string of sitcoms, Phil Doran found himself on the outside looking in. Just as he and his peers had replaced the older guys when he was coming up the ranks, it was now happening to him. And it was freaking him out. He came home every night angry, burned- out, and exhausted. After...
| Author | Rick Steves |
| ISBN | 1566918162 |
Who but Rick Steves can tell travelers the best way to see Rome, Venice, Florence, the hill towns of central Italy, the Dolomites, and the Amalfi Coast? With Rick Steves' Italy 2007, travelers can experience the best of everything Italy has to offer — economically and hassle-free. Completely revised...
| Author | Susan Van Allen |
| ISBN | 1932361650 |
Imagine creating your Italian dream vacation with a fun-loving savvy traveler girlfriend whispering in your ear. Go along with writer Susan Van Allen on a femme-friendly ride up and down the boot, to explore this extraordinarily enchanting country where Venus (Vixen Goddess of Love and Beauty) and...
Vanilla Beans & Brodo: Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany
| Author | Isabella Dusi |
| ISBN | 0743404114 |
Isabella Dusi, a native Australian, settled in Montalcino, a beautiful mountain eyrie famous for its wine and the proud nature of its inhabitants. Her acceptance into this close-knit community was a hard-won thing and has inspired Isabella to capture the true spirit of Montalcino. Vanilla Beans...
| Author | Barbara Grizzuti Harrison |
| ISBN | 0871137275 |
This book would not be the average reader's cup of tea to a 4 star level, IMHO. But it's almost a 5 star to me, despite it being dated. 4.5 star
She's not a writer with succinct word skill. She wanders all over the place with interface, comparisons or neither at all. But as much as she has an opinion,...
La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language
| Author | Dianne Hales |
| ISBN | 0767927699 |
“Italians say that someone who acquires a new language ‘possesses’ it. In my case, Italian possesses me. With Italian racing like blood through my veins, I do indeed see with different eyes, hear with different ears, and drink in the world with all my senses…”
A celebration...
| Author | Eric Newby |
| ISBN | 0864426054 |
In 1967 Eric and Wanda Newby fulfilled a long-cherished dream when they bought a run-down farmhouse in northern Tuscany, in the foothills of the Italian Alps. They were the first foreigners to live in the region. "A Small Place in Italy" describes how the house was restored with the help of their neighbors,...
| Author | Lisa St. Aubin de Terán |
| ISBN | 0060926198 |
Of all the romantic obsessions in novelist Lisa St Aubin de Teran's life, the search for a castle occupied her the longest--until she saw the magnificent Villa Orsola deep in the Umbrian hills. Only after eagerly signing the ownership papers did she and her husband, painter Robbie Duff-Scott, discover...
Ciao, America!: An Italian Discovers the U.S.
| Author | Beppe Severgnini |
| ISBN | 0767912365 |
In the wry but affectionate tradition of Bill Bryson, Ciao, America! is a delightful look at America through the eyes of a fiercely funny guest — one of Italy’s favorite authors who spent a year in Washington, D.C.
When Beppe Severgnini and his wife rented a creaky house in Georgetown they...
Sprezzatura: 50 Ways Italian Genius Shaped the World
A witty, erudite celebration of fifty great Italian cultural achievements that have significantly influenced Western civilization from the authors of What Are the Seven Wonders of the World?
“Sprezzatura,” or the art of effortless mastery, was coined in 1528 by Baldassare Castiglione...
Head Over Heel: Seduced by Southern Italy
A whitewashed fishing village, a shapely signorina and an infatuated young man - head over heels on the heel of the boot of Southern Italy. This is Chris Harrison's hilarious and captivating story of leaving his previous life for La Dolce Vita - that quintessentially Italian seductive way of life, with...
| Author | Kinta Beevor |
| ISBN | 0375704264 |
"Wonderful...I fell immediately into her world, and was sorry when I reached the end." --Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun
The sparkling memoir of an idyllic, bohemian childhood in an enchanted Tuscan castle between the wars.
When Kinta Beevor was five, her father, the...
