Armchair Traveling ~ BOOKS and LECTURES

Here's a list of books that I've been enjoying as I plan our trip!

* A Wanderer in Florence (I picked up this 100 year-old beautiful book in a Lawrence bookshop this spring!) ~ E.V. Lucas

* La Bella Lingua ~ Dianne Hales

* The Heart of France ~ editors of Victoria Magazine

* The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany ~ James Bentley & Hugh Palmer

* Bella Tuscany ~ Frances Mayes

* Within Tuscany ~ Matthew Spender

* Toujours Provence ~ Peter Mayle

* Encore Provence ~ Peter Mayle

* The Pillars of Hercules: a grand tour of the mediterranean ~ Paul Theroux

* Brunelleschi's Dome ~ Ross King

* Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation ~ Noel Riley Fitch

* Seven Ages of Paris ~ Alistair Horne

* City of the Soul ~ William Murray

* As the Romans Do ~ Alan Epstein

* Rome 1960 ~ David Maraniss

* Passion of Artemesia ~ Susan Vreeland

* A Room with a View ~ E.M. Forster

* Down and Out in Paris and London ~ George Orwell

* Paris to the Moon ~ Adam Gopnik

* Book List

Novels:

* The Enchantress of Florence ~ Salman Rushdie

* A Room with a View ~ E. M. Forster

* The Hunchback of Notre Dame ~ Victor Hugo

* The Inferno ~ Dante

* Dante in Love ~ Harriet Rubin

* Tender is the Night ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

* The Name of the Rose ~ Umberto Eco

* The Stones of Florence ~ Mary McCarthy

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Children's Books:
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Pippa the Fool, by Pau Estrada

Here is a marvelous series of lectures by
Prof. Dianna Kleiner
of Yale University