Florence- book recommendation
 

Not exactly a travel question but....I am looking for a gift for someone who has just returned from Florence...any suggestions on a good book with Florence as it's background.....<BR>Thank you<BR>

A mystery set in Florence, Death of an Englishman, by Magdalen Nabb.

The Agony & the Ecstasy - about Michelangelo

If it's a woman "Under the Tuscan Sun". Anecdotes and recipes by a woman professor who spent summers in Tuscany for 20 years. My wife loved it. Sequel is Bella Tuscany. (To me it's like reading about how grass grows).

I do not know whether it hsa been translated in English, but "Nero di maggio" is a lovely noir book set in Florence in the late 1930s and wrote by Leonardo Gori, writer and pharmacist in Florence.

Galileo's Daughter, by Dava Sobel. Especially interesting if your friend visited the History if Science museum in Florence.