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My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 1512 times as italy)
avg rating 4.06 — 506,027 ratings — published 2011
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 800 times as italy)
avg rating 4.14 — 405,176 ratings — published 1980
The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels, #2)
by (shelved 781 times as italy)
avg rating 4.47 — 254,783 ratings — published 2012
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels, #3)
by (shelved 652 times as italy)
avg rating 4.36 — 210,128 ratings — published 2013
The Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 602 times as italy)
avg rating 4.01 — 50,647 ratings — published 1958
The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4)
by (shelved 583 times as italy)
avg rating 4.47 — 193,329 ratings — published 2014
A Room with a View (Paperback)
by (shelved 583 times as italy)
avg rating 3.89 — 207,641 ratings — published 1908
Beautiful Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 536 times as italy)
avg rating 3.68 — 188,798 ratings — published 2012
Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 508 times as italy)
avg rating 3.77 — 331,341 ratings — published 1996
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Paperback)
by (shelved 502 times as italy)
avg rating 4.01 — 116,324 ratings — published 1979
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 471 times as italy)
avg rating 3.84 — 398,180 ratings — published 1513
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 447 times as italy)
avg rating 4.09 — 101,583 ratings — published 1972
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 432 times as italy)
avg rating 4.01 — 218,634 ratings — published 2022
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 412 times as italy)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,866,578 ratings — published 2006
The Enchanted April (Paperback)
by (shelved 411 times as italy)
avg rating 3.87 — 45,850 ratings — published 1922
Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti, #1)
by (shelved 386 times as italy)
avg rating 3.89 — 44,472 ratings — published 1992
The Birth of Venus (Paperback)
by (shelved 373 times as italy)
avg rating 3.81 — 100,562 ratings — published 2003
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 337 times as italy)
avg rating 4.09 — 178,513 ratings — published 1320
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
by (shelved 336 times as italy)
avg rating 4.10 — 623,455 ratings — published 2007
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 327 times as italy)
avg rating 4.44 — 406,986 ratings — published 2017
One Italian Summer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 312 times as italy)
avg rating 3.59 — 313,502 ratings — published 2022
The Shape of Water (Inspector Montalbano, #1)
by (shelved 304 times as italy)
avg rating 3.74 — 27,440 ratings — published 1994
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 290 times as italy)
avg rating 3.88 — 44,534 ratings — published 1349
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 278 times as italy)
avg rating 4.03 — 212,141 ratings — published 1321
The Lying Life of Adults (Hardcover)
by (shelved 277 times as italy)
avg rating 3.67 — 89,532 ratings — published 2019
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 270 times as italy)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,450,695 ratings — published 2000
Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)
by (shelved 270 times as italy)
avg rating 4.02 — 200,526 ratings — published 2016
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as italy)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,550 ratings — published 1999
The Days of Abandonment (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as italy)
avg rating 3.86 — 63,100 ratings — published 2002
Still Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as italy)
avg rating 4.14 — 102,586 ratings — published 2021
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as italy)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,881,505 ratings — published 1590
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as italy)
avg rating 3.82 — 365,246 ratings — published 1929
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 247 times as italy)
avg rating 3.93 — 18,639 ratings — published 2007
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as italy)
avg rating 4.05 — 86,693 ratings — published 2015
Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
by (shelved 243 times as italy)
avg rating 3.91 — 607,997 ratings — published 2013
The Monster of Florence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 243 times as italy)
avg rating 3.76 — 37,485 ratings — published 2008
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as italy)
avg rating 4.09 — 99,168 ratings — published 1961
Foucault’s Pendulum (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as italy)
avg rating 3.91 — 76,284 ratings — published 1988
The City of Falling Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 236 times as italy)
avg rating 3.56 — 17,637 ratings — published 2005
The Tartar Steppe (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as italy)
avg rating 4.20 — 46,262 ratings — published 1940
The Betrothed (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as italy)
avg rating 3.89 — 18,519 ratings — published 1827
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
by (shelved 228 times as italy)
avg rating 3.96 — 126,859 ratings — published 1955
The Baron in the Trees (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as italy)
avg rating 4.02 — 55,723 ratings — published 1957
Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as italy)
avg rating 4.13 — 10,858 ratings — published 1945
The Lost Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as italy)
avg rating 3.73 — 65,092 ratings — published 2006
Lessico famigliare (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as italy)
avg rating 3.89 — 27,108 ratings — published 1963
Zeno's Conscience (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as italy)
avg rating 3.77 — 34,002 ratings — published 1923
Death in a Strange Country (Commissario Brunetti, #2)
by (shelved 200 times as italy)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,590 ratings — published 1993
Pompeii (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as italy)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,294 ratings — published 2003
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as italy)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,792 ratings — published 1975
“In winter you wake up in this city, especially on Sundays, to the chiming of its innumerable bells, as though behind your gauze curtains a gigantic china teaset were vibrating on a silver tray in the pearl-gray sky. You fling the window open and the room is instantly flooded with this outer, peal-laden haze, which is part damp oxygen, part coffee and prayers. No matter what sort of pills, and how many, you've got to swallow this morning, you feel it's not over for you yet. No matter, by the same token, how autonomous you are, how much you've been betrayed, how thorough and dispiriting in your self-knowledge, you assume there is still hope for you, or at least a future. (Hope, said Francis Bacon, is a good breakfast but bad supper.) This optimism derives from the haze, from the prayer part of it, especially if it's time for breakfast. On days like this, the city indeed acquires a porcelain aspect, what with all its zinc-covered cupolas resembling teapots or upturned cups, and the tilted profile of campaniles clinking like abandoned spoons and melting in the sky. Not to mention the seagulls and pigeons, now sharpening into focus, now melting into air. I should say that, good though this place is for honeymoons, I've often thought it should be tried for divorces also - both in progress and already accomplished. There is no better backdrop for rapture to fade into; whether right or wrong, no egoist can star for long in this porcelain setting by crystal water, for it steals the show. I am aware, of course, of the disastrous consequence the above suggestion may have for hotel rates here, even in winter. Still, people love their melodrama more than architecture, and I don't feel threatened. It is surprising that beauty is valued less than psychology, but so long as such is the case, I'll be able to afford this city - which means till the end of my days, and which ushers in the generous notion of the future.”
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“If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."
(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)”
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(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)”
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