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  Maggie O’Farrell’s latest novel, The Marriage Portrait , is even better than Hamnet and The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox , both of which ...

I love to visit Italy, and I love to learn about its history. Since I am on a mission to read all of the books I received as gifts last year...

Every year I try to read at least one book by an Italian author to help me better understand the country and its history. I love to visit It...

For the Back to the Classics 2021 category, Adventure or Travel, I had a couple of possibilities but landed on Pictures from Italy , by Cha...

I found out about  The Uncle from Rome , by Joseph Caldwell , in the anthology Italy in Mind , which included the first chapter.  I read ...