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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 backgraound.....<BR>Thank you

Julie<BR>You might want to post more information in your title, to pick up interest from those who know some books about Florence

Brunelleschi's Dome, by Ross King.

I do not know whether it has been trslated in English, but Leonardo Gori wrote a good noir novel taking place during the Fascism period. The Italian title is "Nero di maggio". Leonardo Gori is a writer and a pharmacist, he lives and works in Florence.

Before we went to Florence I brought my boyfriend "A room with a view". If you search in the right stores, you can get the one with a photo on the cover of the view over Florence and the Duomo. The book itself is, I'm told, very apt when you've been to Florence...

Mary McCarthy's "The Stones of Florence"

In Tuscany is a great coffee table book for anyone whom enjoys Tuscany.