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\"LastLeo Gazzara is hovering on the brink of both turning thirty and plunging into an existential crisis. Keen to avoid respectability, his days are spent avoiding hard work, his nights indulging in the hedonistic thrills of city life. Originally published in 1970,\u00a0Last Summer in the City<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Gianfranco Calligarich is an Italian cult classic. Here translated into English for the first time, it captures those heady days when Rome was the capital of glamour. A boozy, smoky and\u00a0 intoxicating novel, it tells the story of the year Leo\u2019s dolce vita turned sour.<\/p>\n

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\"TheIt\u2019s the tail-end of an Italian summer in 1974, and English art student, Nicholas, is sketching the churches of Venice. He has the looks of a Renaissance angel and an obvious artistic flair, irresistible to the wandering eye of Danilo Donati, celebrated costume and set designer. Donati is in need of an apprentice (and another lover is always welcome). In\u00a0The Silver Book<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Olivia Laing, real-life people and events meld artfully with fiction, as Nicholas is invited into the decadent world of 1970\u2019s Italian cinema and the lives of directors Federico Fellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Through the prism of the cinematic arts and its legendary characters he bears witness to a turbulent Italian era.<\/p>\n

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\"\"The Leopard<\/a><\/em> by Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa \u2013 For a proper summer feel, try this sensual and sensuous Italian classic set in the 1860s amongst the arid hills, frescoed palazzos and turquoise seas of Sicily. It\u2019s the story of the aristocratic Salina family\u2019s decline, of ageing and mortality, of politics and passionate love all mixed up into a fabulous Italian literary feast. It is the time of Garibaldi\u2019s unification of Italy and political changes are sweeping the country. The novel centres on the House of Salina\u2019s formidable family patriarch, Prince Fabrizio as he watches the family\u2019s feudal power and finances slowly disintegrate. Lampedusa\u2019s descriptions of landscapes, people, clothes, interiors, and smells are sublime.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Venice, An Interior<\/em><\/a> by Javier Marias \u2013 A heavenly combination of one of my favourite authors writing about one of my favourite cities: Javier Mar\u00edas\u2019 little essay on Venice. For reasons unknown (a failed love affair?), Mar\u00edas spent a great deal of time in Venice in the 1980s. His reflections on how history and geography have shaped Venice and Venetians are captivating. \u2018Venetians see life from \u201cthe view point of eternity\u201d \u2018, not surprising perhaps when you grow up in place that\u2019s hardly changed for 500 years. The decay, the dark back alleys, the smells, the sense of doom, the colours of the water (\u2018blood red, yellow, white\u2019 by day, \u2018like ink\u2019 by night) combined with dazzling beauty, Mar\u00edas perfectly evokes the city\u2019s atmosphere and hands you a delicious sliver of Venice.<\/p>\n

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\"\"The Unfinished Palazzzo \u2013 Life, Love and Art<\/em><\/a> in Venice by Judith Mackrell \u2013 A gloriously gossipy biography of three extraordinary women all of whom, at different points, called a grand palazzo in Venice their home. An eccentric, reclusive countess, a gold-digging seductress and an art-collecting heiress.\u00a0The Unfinished Palazzo\u00a0<\/em>is a hugely entertaining biography which firmly sits in the \u2018you-couldn\u2019t-have-made-it-up\u2019 category.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Innocence<\/em><\/a> by Penelope Fitzgerald \u2013 Chiara is the daughter of the broke Count Ridolfi, owner of a decrepit palazzo in Florence and with a family history shrouded in sinister myths. Chiara is \u2018a beauty, but not thought beautiful in Florence\u2019 (she is too fair), half-American and with no sense of dress. Enter Salvatore, a handsome, bright but emotionally lobotomised (a hint of Asperger\u2019s?) neurologist, from a poor village in the South of Italy. Not exactly what Chiara\u2019s parents were hoping for.\u00a0There\u2019s something seductive about Fitzgerald\u2019s writing, it\u2019s so gentle and light that it almost seems effortless. It\u2019s not, of course, and that\u2019s the genius of it. Be warned, though, Innocence<\/em>, like her other books, is not action packed, but rather a funny, contemplative story where a lot more goes on than meets the eye.<\/p>\n

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\"\"The Agony and the Ecstasy<\/a><\/em> by Irving Stone \u2013 The Agony and the Ecstasy<\/em>\u00a0is a must read if you are travelling to Tuscany, Florence or Rome (your trip will be infinitely more interesting) or if you are remotely interested in art history or the Italian Renaissance. And even if you are none of the above, this is a worthwhile book.\u00a0The Agony and the Ecstasy<\/em>\u00a0is the story of Michelangelo Buonarotti \u2013 Italian sculptor, painter, poet and architect \u2013 and a very enjoyable lesson in history.<\/p>\n

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\"\"The Neapolitan Novels<\/em> by Elena Ferrante \u2013 My Brilliant Friend<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 and\u00a0 The Story of a New Name<\/em><\/a> \u2013 A glorious portrait of female friendship that took the world by storm, written by an anonymous author whose identity still is a well kept secret. Gossipy and packed with intrigue, too much for some, this series (there are four books) is perfect escapist literature which will take you straight to the back streets of 1950s Naples. Ferrante\u2019s books operate on many levels: the psychology of friendship, the triple curse of poverty, misogyny and domestic abuse, the social hierarchy of Naples\u2019 slums and the almost insurmountable task of escaping it all.<\/p>\n

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