Books Set in Italy
Books Set in Italy
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Books have an extraordinary power to transport us. Through their pages, we can cross oceans, wander through ancient cities, and bask in the golden sunlight of distant landscapes—all from the comfort of our own homes. Few places capture readers’ imaginations as vividly as Italy. With its breathtaking scenery, rich history, and vibrant culture, Italy provides the perfect setting for stories that linger in our hearts long after we turn the final page.
A Journey Through Italy’s Many Layers
When you read books set in Italy, you are not just reading words—you are stepping into a land of sensory delight and cultural discovery. The beauty of Italy is that it offers so much variety. You can lose yourself in the cobbled streets of Rome, where history whispers from every stone, or escape to the tranquil hills of Tuscany, where olive groves and vineyards stretch endlessly into the horizon. You might stroll along the glittering Amalfi Coast, marvel at Venice’s ethereal canals, or savor the colorful chaos of a Sicilian market.
Books set in Italy capture the country’s heart and soul, inviting readers to see, taste, and feel its beauty. These stories allow us to explore Italy’s many regions, each with its own traditions, landscapes, and stories to tell.
A Feast for the Senses
Italy is a country that engages every one of the senses, and authors who set their stories here often bring that richness to life. When reading about Italy, you can practically taste the velvety gelato on a warm afternoon or the fresh pasta drizzled with olive oil and paired with a glass of red wine. You might hear the melodic chatter of Italian spoken in a bustling piazza, or the hum of vespas as they zip through narrow streets. The scent of the sea mingles with citrus groves along the Amalfi Coast, while the cool shadows of Florence’s cathedrals invite quiet reflection.
Books set in Italy allow readers to indulge in these small details, making the experience of reading about the country as immersive as an actual trip. Stories like Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch offer a sweet and lighthearted view of Florence, while books like Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter explore Italy’s coastal charm and dramatic beauty.
Stories Woven with History
Italy’s rich history provides a stunning backdrop for historical fiction, making readers feel as though they’ve stepped back in time. Books like Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan transport readers to World War II Milan, where courage and resilience define one young man’s journey. In The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant, Renaissance Florence comes alive with art, political intrigue, and the vibrant spirit of the city during one of history’s most fascinating periods.
These novels not only entertain but educate, weaving together fact and fiction to paint vivid portraits of Italy’s past. Whether you are exploring the ruins of ancient Rome or witnessing the artistry of Michelangelo in Florence, historical novels set in Italy offer a unique and compelling lens through which to experience the country.
Romance and Renewal in Italy
Few places evoke romance and renewal like Italy. Its sun-drenched landscapes and dreamy cities make it the perfect setting for stories of love, friendship, and transformation. In The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, four women escape their mundane lives to spend a month in a secluded Italian villa, where the beauty of the countryside helps them rediscover joy and purpose. Similarly, Frances Mayes’ Under the Tuscan Sun invites readers to experience the slow, restorative pace of life in rural Tuscany, where simple pleasures become profound.
Contemporary fiction also celebrates Italy’s romantic allure. Novels like Adriana Trigiani’s The Shoemaker’s Wife weave together themes of love, family, and tradition against the sweeping beauty of Italy’s landscapes. For readers craving stories about transformation and second chances, Italy provides the perfect literary escape.
Mystery and Adventure
For those who prefer suspense and intrigue, Italy offers a setting rich in secrets and hidden beauty. Donna Leon’s Commissario Brunetti series brings crime-solving to Venice, blending mystery with a deep sense of place. Readers can wander the city’s atmospheric alleys and canals while solving a case alongside the beloved Venetian detective.
Meanwhile, books like Dan Brown’s Inferno take readers on high-stakes adventures through Italy’s famous landmarks, from Florence’s Duomo to Rome’s ancient ruins. These stories blend action, history, and mystery, turning Italy into the ultimate playground for thrill-seekers.
Escape to Italy Anytime
For readers unable to travel, books set in Italy provide the ultimate escape. They allow us to experience the golden light of a Tuscan sunset, the grandeur of Venice, and the charm of small Italian villages without ever leaving our homes. Whether you crave a quiet moment of beauty, a sweeping romance, or a thrilling mystery, Italy offers something for every reader.
The Keeper of Lost Art by Laura Morelli
Also listed in Books Set in the 1940s
During World War II, a girl makes an unbreakable connection with a boy sheltering in her family’s Tuscan villa, where the treasures of the Uffizi Galleries are hidden. A moving coming-of-age story about the power of art in wartime, based on true events.
As Allied bombs rain down on Torino in the autumn of 1942, Stella Costa’s mother sends her to safety with distant relatives in a Tuscan villa. There, Stella finds her family tasked with a great responsibility: hiding nearly 300 priceless masterpieces from Florence, including Botticelli’s famous Primavera.
With the arrival of German troops imminent, Stella finds herself a stranger in her family’s villa and she struggles to understand why her aunt doesn’t like her. She knows it has something to do with her parents—and the fact that her father, who is currently fighting at the front, has been largely absent from her life.
When a wave of refugees seeks shelter in the villa, Stella befriends Sandro, an orphaned boy with remarkable artistic talent. Amid the growing threats, Sandro and Stella take refuge in the villa’s “treasure room,” where the paintings are hidden. There, Botticelli’s masterpiece and other works of art become a solace, an inspiration, and the glue that bonds Stella and Sandro as the dangers grow.
A troop of German soldiers requisitions the villa and puts everyone to forced labor. Now, with the villa full of German soldiers, refugees, a secret guest, and hundreds of priceless treasures, no one knows who will emerge unscathed, and whether the paintings will be taken as spoils or become unintended casualties.
Inspired by the incredible true story of a single Tuscan villa used as a hiding place for the treasures of Florentine art during World War II, The Keeper of Lost Art takes readers on a breathtaking journey into one of the darkest chapters of Italy’s history, highlighting the incredible courage of everyday people to protect some of the most important works of art in western civilization.
To Sicily with Love by Jennifer Probst
Author Interview with Jennifer Probst
When she learns she has a big Italian family she never knew about, a lonely woman travels to Sicily for a life-changing summer in the new romance from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst
Aurora York had it all together: loving parents, a steady relationship, and a promising career. But after she loses both parents unexpectedly, she can’t seem to stay on track any longer. Lonely and lost after a public meltdown that threatens her professional credibility, she’s shocked when DNA test results show a blood relative in Sicily. When her cousin reaches out online and begs her to come to Italy to meet everyone in person, Aurora makes the leap.
Aurora arrives in Sicily for a month, and there she meets a colorful, dynamic family steeped in tradition. The younger generation is fascinated by her social media fame in America, and even though her grandparents have more traditional viewpoints, Aurora begins to heal from her grief…and enjoys the attention of a kind and handsome Italian man.
But when the summer ends, a new opportunity calls her back to the States and her old habits threaten to reemerge. Will Aurora leave everything in Sicily she loves behind, or take the chance on a whole new future?
The Nutcracker Chronicles: A Fairytale Memoir by Janine Kovac
Bookish Buys inspired by The Nutcracker Chronicles by Janine Kovac
Janine Kovac was seven years old when she got a fluttery feeling in her chest while watching her first performance of The Nutcracker. From that moment, she knew she wanted to be a ballerina. It wasn’t long before she herself was dancing the part of a snowflake, flower, mouse, soldier, and Fritz, Clara’s brother, who snatches the nutcracker from her and yanks off its head—all in search of the magic she felt only on the stage.
Over a twelve-year career, Janine dances with ballet companies in San Francisco, Seattle, Germany, Iceland, and Italy, returning home every holiday season to perform The Nutcracker with Ballet El Paso. Despite the challenges of the ballet world, Janine can’t resist the inner glow and effortlessness she feels on stage, under the lights, dancing to Tchaikovsky in the Land of Sweets, ruled by a sugar plum fairy. That’s when she feels beautiful.
The Stone Witch of Florence by Anna Rasche
Also listed in Books to Read for Halloween
A spellbinding debut that follows a young woman who harnesses the strange, ancient magic of gemstones to investigate a series of shocking crimes in plague-stricken Florence, all the while proving she is more physician than witch, perfect for fans of The Lost Apothecary.
1348. As the Black Plague lays waste to Italy, Ginevra di Gasparo is summoned back to Florence after nearly a decade of lonely exile. Ginevra has a gift—using the ancient practices of alchemy she learned as a young girl, she can heal the sick. But when word traveled of her unusual craft, she was condemned as a witch and banished. Now, the same men who expelled Ginevra are begging for her return.
She obliges, assuming the city’s leaders are finally ready to accept her unorthodox cures amidst a pandemic. But upon arrival, she is tasked with a much different mission: she must use her collection of jewels to track down a ruthless thief who is ransacking Florence's churches for priceless relics, leaving mysterious vials of brightly colored liquids in their place. If she succeeds, she’ll be a recognized physician, never accused of witchcraft again.
But as her investigation progresses, Ginevra discovers she’s merely a pawn in a much larger scheme than the one she’s been hired to solve. And the dangerous men behind this conspiracy won’t think twice about killing a stone witch to get what they want…
A Wedding In Lake Como by Jennifer Probst
Also listed in My Most- Anticipated Contemporary Fiction of 2024
A destination wedding in Italy’s Lake Como brings three best friends back together to face the secrets of the past in this romantic novel from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst.
Best friends Ava, Madison, and Chelsea made a pact to reunite for each other’s weddings when their careers sent them in different directions. But after one of them makes a choice that tears the group apart, an upcoming wedding might be their last chance to heal old wounds.
Ava is about to marry the man she loves in a lavish ceremony on the shores of Lake Como, but she’s haunted by the mistakes she’s made.
Madison’s made a name for herself as an influencer in the fashion world but is threatened by a scandal impacting everything she holds dear.
And Chelsea has the perfect family she always craved, but her professional dreams have fallen by the wayside.
As they return to Italy’s gorgeous coast, the three women revisit their life-changing first trip to Lake Como during college, and Madison comes face-to-face with the college sweetheart who was at the heart of one of the most pivotal times of her life.
Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki
Also listed in My Most-Anticipated Historical Fiction of 2024
Bookish Buys inspired by Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki
Finding Margaret Fuller tells the larger-than-life story of a woman whose brilliance stands out among the rest: Margaret Fuller, “America’s Most Well-Read Person,” inspiring feminist, pioneering journalist, and the nation’s forgotten leading lady of the Transcendentalist movement.
In 1836, when young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated “Sage of Concord,” to stay in Concord, MA, she finds her intellectual equals among his coterie of enlightened friends. She becomes a role model to young Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration to Nathaniel Hawthorne's character of Hester Prynne and the scandalous Scarlet Letter, a friend to Henry David Thoreau as he ventures into the woods of Walden Pond...and a muse to Emerson himself. But as love triangles and interpersonal drama threaten her ambitions, Margaret finds her restless soul in need of new challenges and adventure and decides she must venture into the broader world.
And so she charts a singular course against a backdrop of dizzying historical drama: From Boston, where she hosts a women-only literary salon for students like Elizabeth Cady Stanton; to Harvard’s campus, where she is the first woman permitted to study within its walls; to her role as the first female foreign news correspondent, mingling with luminaries like Frederic Chopin; and to Rome where she finds a world of passion, romance, and revolution, taking a Roman count as a lover amid a revolution that would result in Italy’s unification.
With a star-studded cast and epic sweep of historical events, this is a story of an inspiring trailblazer, a woman who loved big and lived even bigger—a fierce adventurer who transcended the rigid roles ascribed to women, and changed history for millions, all on her own terms.
Buried in Orange by John H. Cunningham
Buck Reilly's plans for a romantic getaway are turned upside down when he's asked to come to Italy by Sir Harry Greenbaum, his former main investor, and old family friend, to do a flyover at the beginning of the Formula 1 race in Monza. Turns out the real reason Harry asked him to come was to help him combat organized crime members intent on forcing their way into his pending investment into one of the Formula 1's most historic teams. When Harry gets kidnapped, Buck scours northern Italy searching for him, battling with his captors, and taking matters into his own hands to try and rescue his friend.
If everything isn't settled by the end of the race in Monza, Harry's deal will be dead, and so will he and Buck. When they try to outmaneuver the head of the crime syndicate, thousands of lives are thrust into immediate jeopardy. Buck's race against time puts him in the most extreme danger he has ever faced, and if he's successful, will help him solve the greatest mystery of his life.
Queen of Exiles by Vanessa Riley
Acclaimed historical novelist Vanessa Riley is back with another novel based on the life of an extraordinary Black woman from history: Haiti’s Queen Marie-Louise Christophe, who escaped a coup in Haiti to set up her own royal court in Italy during the Regency era, where she became a popular member of royal European society.
The Queen of Exiles is Marie-Louise Christophe, wife and then widow of Henry I, who ruled over the newly liberated Kingdom of Hayti in the wake of the brutal Haitian Revolution.
In 1810 Louise is crowned queen as her husband begins his reign over the first and only free Black nation in the Western Hemisphere. But despite their newfound freedom, Haitians still struggle under mountains of debt to France and indifference from former allies in Britain and the new United States. Louise desperately tries to steer the country’s political course as King Henry descends into a mire of mental illness.
In 1820, King Henry is overthrown and dies by his own hand. Louise and her daughters manage to flee to Europe with their smuggled jewels. In exile, the resilient Louise redefines her role, recovering the fortune that Henry had lost and establishing herself as an equal to the kings of European nations. With newspapers and gossip tracking their every movement, Louise and her daughters tour Europe like other royals, complete with glittering balls and princes with marriage proposals. As they find their footing—and acceptance—they discover more about themselves, their Blackness, and the opportunities they can grasp in a European and male-dominated world.
Queen of Exiles is the tale of a remarkable Black woman of history—a canny and bold survivor who chooses the fire and ideals of political struggle, and then is forced to rebuild her life on her own terms, forever a queen.
The Lipstick Bureau by Michelle Gable
Author Interview with Michelle Gable
Inspired by one of the OSS’s few female operatives, Barbara Lauwers, a WWII novel set at OSS’s Morale Office in Rome, which was responsible for creating black propaganda and distributing it behind enemy lines. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookseller's Secret.
1944, Rome: Newlywed Niki Novotná is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. One of OSS's few female operatives abroad and multi-lingual, she's tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing propaganda to lower the morale of enemy soldiers.
Despite limited resources, Niki and a scrappy team of artists, forgers, and others?now nicknamed The Lipstick Bureau?find success, forming a bond amid the cobblestone streets and storied villas of the newly liberated city. But her work is also a way to escape devastating truths about the family she left behind in Czechoslovakia and a future with her controlling American husband.
As the war drags on and the pressure intensifies, Niki begins to question the rules she's been instructed to follow, and a colleague unexpectedly captures her heart. But one step out of line, one mistake, could mean life or death...
Loosely inspired by real-life OSS operative Barbara Lauwers, Michelle Gable's The Lipstick Bureau is about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war, no matter the cost.
Painter of the Damned by Rob Samborn
Author Interview with Rob Samborn
Nick & Julia O’Connor's dream trip to Venice, Italy becomes a nightmare when Nick hears a voice from Paradise, the world's largest oil painting. Nick discovers an ancient enigmatic order that has developed a method of extracting people’s souls, which they imprison in the artwork. Among the thousands trapped is Nick’s soul mate from the 16th century.
After surviving an ordeal and escaping Venice, Nick and Julia have one goal: return home with their lives. But before they reach the American consulate in Milan, they’re captured and returned to the City of Masks.
Behind Nick’s detention is Salvatore della Porta, the corrupt head of the order. Della Porta believes Nick’s previous life knows the location of a mysterious book lost to the ages that will bring him world-changing power—or topple the order.
As Nick’s link to the past consumes him, it’s up to Julia to save her husband and crush della Porta. But with friends in short supply, she must enlist a young artist who is the order’s new warden of the damned.
All The Lies They Did Not Tell: The True Story of Satanic Panic in an Italian Community by Pablo Trincia
Also listed in Books Set in the 1990s
In 1997 a six-year-old boy questioned by authorities relayed disturbing stories of abuse. The more he talked, the more people were implicated in his shocking revelations. And he was only the first child to come forward.
Within a year, fifteen more children with similar tales were transferred out of the Bassa region of Italy to protected locations. Their parents were accused of belonging to a satanic sect that performed sex rituals under the aegis of beloved local priest Don Giorgio Govoni. With each child’s confession, the network of monsters grew. Families were torn apart. Lives were forever destroyed—and some ended—as allegations of kidnapping, torture, sacrifice, and murder escalated beyond comprehension.
But what was really happening in the Bassa Modenese?
In this gripping account of the Satanic Panic of the 1990s, investigative journalist Pablo Trincia returns to the scene of the crimes to find the answer. And the truth he uncovers is as terrifying as the lies.
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
More than twenty years ago, Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeys—whether that be flying to a foreign country in search of themselves, savoring one of the book’s dozens of delicious seasonal recipes, or simply being transported by Mayes’s signature evocative, sensory language. Now with a new afterword from Frances Mayes, the twentieth-anniversary edition of Under the Tuscan Sun revisits the book’s most popular characters.
Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager―obsessed with music, food, and girls―but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.
In an attempt to protect him, Pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German soldier―a move they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.
Now, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share.
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Beguiling, witty, and gently comedic, The Enchanted April tells the tale of four very different women who escape dreary London for an Italian castle in Portofino, shortly after World War I. Elizabeth von Arnim’s ageless novel compellingly responds to the eternal question of how to achieve happiness in life. An immediate best seller upon its first publication, the story of unlikely female friendship, newfound empowerment, rekindled love, and unexpected romance has been adapted for stage and screen, including a 1991 Oscar-nominated film, and a Tony-nominated play in 2003. This much-beloved book appeals to anyone who appreciates the sly charm of Downton Abbey and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, deep in daydreams, looks out over the waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying.
And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot—searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.
What unfolds is a dazzling roller coaster of a novel, spanning fifty years and nearly as many lives. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Walter introduces us to the tangled lives of a dozen unforgettable characters: the starstruck Italian innkeeper and his long-lost love; the heroically preserved producer who once brought them together and his idealistic young assistant; the army veteran turned fledgling novelist and the rakish Richard Burton himself, whose appetites set the whole story in motion—along with the husbands and wives, lovers and dreamers, superstars and losers, who populate their world in the decades that follow. Gloriously inventive, constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a story of flawed yet fascinating people, navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.
Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping New York Times bestseller filled with romance, mystery, and adventure.
Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home.
But then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother’s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. It’s a secret that will change everything Lina knew about her mother, her father—and even herself.
People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more.
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Also listed in Friendship Books
Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflicted friendship. This first novel in the series follows Lila and Elena from their fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence.
Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between two women.
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Visiting Florence with her prim and proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional, lower-class Mr. Emerson and his son, George. Upon her return to England, Lucy becomes engaged to the supercilious Cecil Vyse, but she finds herself increasingly torn between the expectations of the world in which she moves and the passionate yearnings of her heart. More than a love story, A Room with a View (1908) is a penetrating social comedy and a brilliant study of contrasts - in values, social class, and cultural perspectives - and the ingenuity of fate. In her illuminating introduction, Forster biographer Wendy Moffat delves into the little-known details of his life before and during the writing of A Room with a View, and explores the way the enigmatic author’s queer eye found comedy in the clash between English manners and the unsettling modern world, encouraging his reader to recognize and overcome their prejudice through humor. This edition also contains new suggestions for further reading by Moffat and explanatory notes by Malcolm Bradbury.
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
lessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.
But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola’s reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra’s married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art.
The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.
Inferno by Dan Brown
With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee.
Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written, Dante Alighieri's The Inferno.
Dan Brown has raised the bar yet again, combining classical Italian art, history, and literature with cutting-edge science in this captivating thriller.
Italy’s timeless appeal, rich history, and breathtaking beauty make it a literary destination unlike any other. Books set in Italy let us explore its landscapes, savor its culture, and walk its storied streets from wherever we are. So whether you’re dreaming of a Mediterranean escape, a Renaissance adventure, or a moment of magic on the Amalfi Coast, let Italy be your next armchair travel destination—all you need is a good book.
