Can I make any stopovers between departure and final destination (for ex. between Venice and Verona to stop at Vicenza)? Or do I have to buy separate tickets for each leg of the journey? And is it different for IC and Eurostar trains? Thanks

Buying Eurostar reserves you a seat on a particular train only. Buying IC, you could stop over--I think you've got 6 hours--and then continue on another IC. It would not be worth purchasing Eurostar for the particular short routes you describe. I'd go with IC.

Just read another post (do search for "Eurostar Italia--differences between first and second class&quot which is a really helpful primer on Italian trains. It sounds like you might be able to continue on a later Eurostar, but you'd have to re-reserve and pay fees of up to 8 euro. Again, this sounds too troublesome and expensive compared to taking an IC over this short run.

ellenm:
I fear you got it wrong. While a ticket is valid for just any train of the same (or lower) cathegory, the reservation allows you to sit only on the seat number, car (???) of the train and train you have booked for. Thus yo can't leave an Eurostar train and get on another because Eurostars are booking-only, so all the seats are taken. You can still use the same ticket to get on nay lower cathegory trains (Intercity, Interregionale, Espresso, Diretto, Regionale), but you will not be granted a seat since your reservation will not be valid on that train. On Intercity train, you can get off at one place and hop on another Intercity train with no problem, or on any lowe cathegory train (Interregionale, Espresso, Diretto, Regionale), yet you will not be granted a seat as well. Lower category trains (Interregionale, Espresso, Diretto, Regionale) allow no booking at all.

Alice, I really appreciate you information on this. It was my interpretation of the other thread I mentioned, that one might be able to re-reserve a seat on another Eursotar, but for a fee. All in all, as I stated it seems much too troublesome and costly for such a short distance.

You can do it, maybe, if the ticket has not been used at all.

Oh, I see that you re going to travel from Venice to Verona, than I suggest you NOT ot use Eurostars (or even Intercity) trains. Such short trips are better (and far cheaper) done with a plain Regionale train, that allows no reseration and with wich you can do anything you want (use it as a hop-on hop-off, for instance).