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- Location(s): Bergamo, Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A sister’s love versus a cruel fate. A story of fierce love and heartbreaking grief. Claire Waters, an Italian mystery writer living in Los Angeles, rushes to Italy after her older sister’s devastating brain-hemorrhage, determined to restore her health-or...
- Location(s): Ferrara, Italy, Milan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 15th Century
At the heart of this book is the complex relationship between two of Leonardo’s muses and patrons at the court of Milan: The d’Este sisters, Isabella and Beatrice, who are betrothed to two very different men. Isabella marries the...
- Location(s): Milan, Switzerland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): First World War
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the ‘war to end all wars’. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. In an unforgettable depiction...
- Location(s): Milan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
“Put on your Borsalino and swing those hips, baby.” Charming, poetic, delightful and humorous travel and life stories about extraordinary Milanese women, men who have succumbed to their temptation, and the art of living your own dolce vita no...
Chique Secrets of the Dolce Amore
- Location(s): Milan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
When we talk about “the city of love”, most of us immediately think of Paris, Venice, Rome or another famous metropolis whose romantic stories we know from movies and novels. But to Barbara Conelli, none of them are the...
- Location(s): Milan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1490s
Milan, 1496 and forty-four-year-old Leonardo da Vinci has a reputation for taking on commissions and failing to complete them. He is in a state of professional uncertainty and financial difficulty. For eighteen months he has been painting murals in...
- Location(s): Saronno
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
Young widow Simonetta tries to rebuild her family in 16th century Saronno, tuscany, following the death of her husband in one of the battles ravaging the land. In pursuit of a means to keep her estate together, she stumbles...
The Divorced Lady’s Companion to Living in Italy
- Location(s): Milan, Rome, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Marilyn Wade, half-Hungarian divorcée and mother of unflinching teens, moves to Milan to remap her womanhood. Rumour had it that Marilyn’s old icon Jean Harper met her Milanese lover on a singles trip to Macchu Pichu and went to...
The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton
- Location(s): Cremona, Kent, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Between the simple melody of running her violin shop and the full-blown orchestra of her romantic interludes in Paris with David, her devoted partner of eight years, Grace Atherton has always set her life to music. Her world revolves entirely around David,...
- Location(s): Milan
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
In the bleak Milan suburb of Metanopoli, in the late 1960s, a dead woman is found along the side of the road. Duca Lamberti is a medical doctor who has just been released from prison, where he has spent...
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