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In honor of Father’s Day, I want to tell you about a book that I have enjoyed and that my own father is currently reading! An unforgettable story based on true events, My Father’s Last Meatballs, A Heavenly Entrée, is a tale of family, love, loss and miracles. This non-fiction book is a compelling story brimming with great ingredients: moxie, …
We had our books club with author Frances Mayes on June 5, 2019 to discuss her book See You In The Piazza. Frances is featured in the new Dream of Italy Tuscan Sun Special. Part 1 and Part 2 of the video are available on Facebook. You can purchase a copy here, but first enjoy an excerpt: The waiter slides toward me a clear …
This article originally appeared in the May 2019 issue of Dream of Italy. You can also watch a video of our Facebook Live chat with Laura Morelli, PhD who wrote this article and our entire special report on the Etruscans. In about 750 BCE, the people of central Italy had a problem. To their south, ships carrying strange soldiers, merchants, and …
Our guest editor for this issue is art historian Laura Morelli, Phd Who Were The Etruscans? Countless books, courses, and documentaries center around the theme of the “mysterious Etruscans.” Historians have fueled this concept of the Etruscans as somehow difficult to understand or interpret. The truth is that we know a lot about the Etruscans—even more than we know about …
You might know Italy travel expert Kathy McCabe from her PBS TV travel series Dream of Italy as well as the award-winning travel publication and membership website Dream of Italy that she founded in 2002. Now Kathy is launching this new podcast to help feed all of our Italian dreams – whether we are dreaming of moving to Italy or …
Roman street artist Alice Pasquini, who you may remember from Dream of Italy’s Rome episode, is the director of the 2019 CVTA’ Street Fest this June in Civitacampomarano in the little-known region of Molise in southern Italy which is the hometown of Alice’s maternal grandfather. It is the result of a loving partnership between the commune of Civitacampomarano and Alice …
Florence is home to some of the most beautiful art works in the entire world. Not all of these masterpieces hang on gallery walls, though. The picturesque yet wild Boboli Gardens have been undergoing renovations, enlargements and changes since the Medici and Lorraine families began curating them in the 16th century. Given that the gardens are at the mercy of …
We had our book club with author Sheryl Ness on February 10, 2019 to discuss her book Love in a Tuscan Kitchen. Click here to watch the video. You can purchase a copy here, but first enjoy an excerpt: Time is standing still. We are just celebrating the Nuovo Anno (New Year) here in our little village in Italy and it is 2011. …
This article originally appeared in the August 2018 issue of Dream of Italy. During World War II, the city prison in Ferrara, a city of about 133,000 between Bologna and Venice, detained Jews who came from Ferrara’s ghetto and who were later sent to concentration camps. Now, that same prison has been converted to Italy’s first museum dedicated to Jewish …
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