Welcome to Italy, where spring breezes are a threat and political turnover is a promise. In a country where words are the most common music and gestures the most frequent dance, find out why wishing someone good luck attracts its polar opposite and why foods served on the same plate best be color-coordinated. Drawn from her column in The Florentine, Linda Falcone s vignettes take readers on an exhilarating ramble through Italy s life and language, both conjuring its beauties and unriddling its beasts. Size up and side-step the country s curious taboos and tune into its unbounded appeal with this book that s smart enough for the veteran traveler and light enough for the newly arrived. These colorful stories prove that laughter is the surefire antidote to culture shock and that language is the most effective window through which to see the world.

Italians Dance and I'm a Wallflower: Adventures in Italian Expressions

Humor & Entertainment

Falcone, Linda

Humor

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After an endless hunt for an affordable one-bedroom in Florence, Italy, ran her ragged, Mary Gray launched her “Rental Diaries” column on all things apartment-related. Triumphs. Disasters. Minor inconveniences. Meddling neighbors.This compilation of the column’s first 30 volumes is no flowery manifesto about the healing powers of la dolce vita. But it celebrates the dual joy and despair of renting in the Renaissance city—and the unexpected sweetness of building a home when you’re unsure where or what “home” really is.

Rental Diaries: Thoughts from my four walls in Florence

Gray, Mary

Having found himself in Florence suspiciously often, Harry Cochrane decided to settle as an Anglo-Florentine in 2018.Despite the crushing weight of art and history that seems to make the atmospheric pressure higher than in other parts of the world, Florence has not yet persuaded him to give up scribbling poems. Instead, it has shouldered its way into most of his writings, as have the country and the people it belongs to.At the core of this book are poems previously published in The Florentine, alongside others written in Florence, about Florence or around Florence.

The Florence Duck Store: 23 poems inspired by Italy

Literature & Fiction

Cochrane, Harry

Poetry

Study Abroad in Florence: Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy the Experience of a Lifetime

Travel

Bracci, Marco

De La Pierre, Marco

Europe

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