EyeItalia

Edited by Alice Leccese Powers, Italy in Mind is a delightful literary potpourri, revealing Italy’s incomparable beauty and its many contradictions. Featuring essays, letters, novel excerpts, short stories and poems, Powers has chosen works from over 40 writers spanning two centuries – including Mark Twain, Lord Byron, Richard Wilbur, Michael Ondaatje, Calvin Trillin and Edith Wharton – all of whom have been charmed, seduced or perplexed by Italy and her inhabitants.  Appropriate for any traveler (whether real or armchair) desiring a greater understanding of  “la bella paese”, this book offers rich and marvelous perspectives from some of Britain’s and America’s greatest writers. To purchase Italy in Mind, go here.