Helpful Italian Websites and Resources
Rev. 6/6/08
Websites
The Florentine (English language publications)- http://www.theflorentine.net/
Explore Florence - http://www.explore-florence.com/125/Culture.html
The Uffizi - http://www.uffizi.com/
ItalyGuides - http://www.italyguides.it/us/italy_travel.htm#top
Florence.net - http://english.firenze.net/
Lonely Planet (Florence) - http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/italy/florence
Florentine Point of View - http://www.florenceinitaly.com/
TrenItalia (Italian Train System) - http://www.trenitalia.com/en/index.html
Hostels - http://www.europeanhostels.com/
http://www.hosteleurope.com/
http://www.eurotrip.com/
Airfare - http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/
http://easyjet.com/
http://www.blueskytravelinc.com/
Other websites:
www.melindagallo.com/blog (a blog about a foreigner living in Florence)
http://www.studentsville.it/ (a website that labels itself “everything about studying, living, and lodging
in Florence)
Selected Books
There are literally thousands of books about Italy and Florence/Tuscany. Here is a short selection
dealing with some specific topics which you may find useful:
The Food of Italy. Waverly Root, New York, 1975.
Barzini, Luigi. The Italians. London, 1964.
Belmonte, Thomas The Broken Fountain.
Burkhardt, Jacob The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. London, 1960.
Cipolla, Gaetano. What Italy Has Given to the World.
Costantino, Mario and Lawrence R. Gambella. The Italian Way.
Falcone, Linda. If They are Roses - The italian way with words .
Falcone, Linda Italians Dance and I'm a Wallflower.
Dusi, Isabella. Vanilla Beans & Brodo: Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany .
Flower, Raymond. Chianti, The Land the People & the Wine. London & New York, 1979.
Fortune, Jane. To Florence, Con Amore - 77 ways to love the City.
Gerber, Merrill Joan. Botticelli Blue Skies: An American in Florence.
Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love. Viking Press, February 2006.
Haycroft, John. Italian Labyrinth. Penguin, 1985.
La Palombara, J. Democracy, Italian Style, Yale University Press, 1987.
Leavitt, David. Italian Pleasures.
Lepschy, A. & G. The Italian Language of Today. London, 1977.
Liehm, M. Passion and Defiance, Film in Italy from 1942 to the present. Univ. of California Press, 1984.
Marwitz, Darlene. Italy Fever: 14 Ways to Satisfy Your Love Affair With Italy.
Mayes, Frances. Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy.
Mayes, Frances. Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy.
McCarthy, Mary. The Stones of Florence and Venice Observed. Penguin, 1986.
Moretti, John. Living Abroad in Italy. 1st ed. Emeryville, CA: Avalon Travel, 2004. 1-265.
Navone, John. The Land and the Spirit of Italy.
Neighbor, Travis and Monica Larner. Living, Studying and Working in Italy: Everything You Need
to Know to Fulfill Your Dreams of Living Abroad.
Pybus, V. & R. Robinson. Live and Work in Italy. Oxford, 1992.
Smith, Denis Mack. Italy a Modern History. London, 1968.
Swanson, Sandra J. A Summer in Tuscany.
Romanucci-Ross, Lola. One Hundred Towers: An Italian Odyssey of Cultural Survival.
Walston, J. Mafi and Clientism. Routledge, 1988.
Ward, William Getting it Right in Italy. Bloomsbury, 1990.
Weston, Carol. The Diary of Melanie Martin: or How I Survived Matt the Brat, Michelangelo,
and the Leaning Tower of Pizza (Melanie Martin Novels).