Villa Vita Recipes & Books

Some Favorite Books . . .

Non Fiction:

That Fine Italian Hand - Paul Hofmann
Italian Days - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Under The Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes
Bella Tuscany - Frances Mayes
Desiring Italy - Susan Cahill
The Italians - Luigi Barzini
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
The House of Medici - Christopher Hibbert
Italian Neighbors - Tim Parks
Vanilla Beans and Brodo - Isabella Dusi
Bel Vino - Isabella Dusi
Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
1000 Days in Venice - Marlena De Blasi
1000 Days in Tuscany - Marlena De Blasi
A Traveller in Italy - H.V. Morton
Dances with Luigi: A Grandson's Search for his Italian Roots - Paul Paolicelli
Extra Virgin: Amongst the olive groves of Liguria - Annie Hawes
Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy - Wallis Widle-Menozzi
The Reluctant Tuscan - Phil Doran
War in Val d'Orcia - Iris Origo
Living in a Foreign Language - Michael Tucker

Fiction:

Vivaldi's Virgins - Barbara Quick
The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
Room With a View - E. M. Forster
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
The Light in the Piazza - Elizabeth Spencer
The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
Pompeii: A Novel - Robert Harris
La Cucina: A Novel of Rapture - Lily Prior

and Movies

In Italian with Subtitles:

Il Postino - 1995, Michael Radford

Family Flaw - 2002, Alberto Simone
Bread and Tulips - 2000, Silvio Soldini
Life is Beautiful - 1997, Roberto Benigni

Tiger in the Snow - 2005, Roberto Benigni
Ciao, Professore! - 1993, Lina Wertmuller
Cinema Paradiso - 1988, Giuseppe Tornatore
Malena - 2000, Giuseppe Tornatore

Best of Youth - 2003, Marco Tullio Giordana

Mediterraneo - 1991, Gabriele Salvatores
Facing Windows - 2004, Ferzan Ozpetek
The Bicycle Thief - 1948, Vittorio de Sica

Open City - 1945, Roberto Rossellini

Divorce Italian Style - 1961, Pietro Germi

I'm Not Scared - 2003, Gabriele Salvatores

1900 - 1977, Bernardo Bertolucci with Robert De Niro Gerard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster and Donald Sutherland

And others in English:

Much Ado About Nothing - 1993, Kenneth Branagh
For Roseanna - 1997, Paul Weiland with Jean Reno
My Voyage to Italy - 1999, Martin Scorsese
Under the Tuscan Sun - 2003, Audrey Wells
Stealing Beauty - 1996, Bernardo Bertolucci
Tea With Mussolini - 1999, Franco Zeffirelli
The English Patient - 1996, Anthony Minghella

A Good Woman - 2004, Mike Barker, with Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson

The Merchant of Venice - 2004, Michael Radford, with Al Pacino

Dangerous Beauty - 1998, Marshall Herskovitz

Room with a View - 1986, James Ivory
Roman Holiday - 1953, William Wyler, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck

Big Night - 1996, Stanley Tucci

Golden Door - 2007, Emanuele Crialese

Some Favorite Recipes from Our Friends

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