Am a new member of the Fodors.com forum and hope that you can assist with book titles about Italy. I DEVOUR books about the country, am very well traveled over there and hope (Some day) to make it my home. Any titles/subjects are always welcome. If I can help in any way regarding travel in Italy, especially if it is about Tuscany, Umbria or the city of Venice, please let me know. I'll do my best to answer your question. Look forward to contributing the to forum!

Hi IT,

Welcome to the group.
How about "A Farewell to Arms"?

Colleen McCullough has a series about Caesar, big books but very good. A Glancing Light by Aaron Elkins is set in Bologna; Donna Leon writes mysteries set in Venice; The Dante Game by Jane Langton is set in Florence.

"Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann set of course in Venice.
Gabriele D'Annunzio "Pleasure" set in Rome.
"Room with a view" by E. M Forster set in Tuscany
"The wings of the Dove" by Henry James set in a wonderful Venice

Demons and Angels by Dan Brown, excellent, thriller book ,

White Smoke Over the Vatican, by Don Sharkey,

Italians Days ,by Barbara Griffuti Harrison,

The Roman Way, by Edith Hamilton,

Italians Neighbors, by Tim Parks,


Rome, the Biography of a City, by Christopher Hibbert,these are only few of the many books written about Italy.
Enjoy,
kismet