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Seven Ways to Photograph Italy Like A Pro (October/November 2020)

This article originally appeared in the October/November 2020 issue of Dream of Italy. Anyone who has been to Italy knows how visually seductive it is. If you’re carrying a camera (and with every mobile phone equipped with a high-quality camera, who isn’t?) Italy becomes even more alluring, compelling you to make photographs of nearly everything you see. But why is it …

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The Women of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Portraits (August/September 2020)

This article originally appeared in the August/September 2020 issue of Dream of Italy. Growing up in late 15th-century Florence, Leonardo da Vinci was surrounded by smart, beautiful women. While the young artist was learning from Andrea del Verrocchio, painters were busy depicting upstanding women in profile. In these portraits, the point was not to reveal anything about the woman’s personality, but rather …

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Give Prato A Go (August/September 2020)

This article originally appeared in the August/September 2020 issue of Dream of Italy. Iris Origo’s 1957 work The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City at times paints a rather bleak picture of the townspeople. Early in the text, scholar-biographer Origo quotes an unknown 14th-century Pratese gentleman’s reflective writings upon returning from time spent in Padua and Ferrara: I …

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Share Your Dream: A Heavenly Tuscan Guest House (August/September 2020)

This article originally appeared in the August/September 2020 issue of Dream of Italy. When I dream of Italy I dream of being lifted, as if on wings, to the Fonte Martino Guest House and Estate, nestled in the Tuscan countryside of Montepulciano. Floating up a winding path between cypress trees that pierce through ethereal clouds to touch the blue sky, I arrive at …

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Share Your Dream: The Layers of Sicily and Eggplant Parmigiana (August/September 2020)

This article originally appeared in the August/September 2020 issue of Dream of Italy. When I dream of Italy, I dream of Sicily and all the many ways they eat eggplant. That beautiful, shiny, dark purple vegetable is everywhere. You eat it hot and cold…in pasta and in salads…in caponata and, of course, in eggplant parmesan (parmigiana di melanzane). They say in Sicily that parmesan has nothing …

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About The Night Portrait: A New Book About A Da Vinci Painting (August/September 2020)

This article originally appeared in the August/September 2020 issue of Dream of Italy. Laura Morelli is the author of exciting, dual-timeline historical novel, released September 8th, about the creation of one of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings, Portrait of a Lady with an Ermine, and the woman who fought to save it from Nazi destruction during World War II. Milan, 1492: …

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Share Your Dream: Memories of Stresa

When I dream of Italy, I dream of Stresa. In 1969, the summer of Woodstock, my boyfriend and I hitchhiked around Europe, along with thousands of other backpacking American college kids. We stayed in sleazy, cheap hotels, got robbed while sleeping on a French beach, and fended off pickpockets in the Milan train station. Broke, weary, squabbling, we arbitrarily went to …

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Share Your Dream: Soul Knowing in an Olive Grove (June/July 2020)

This article originally appeared in the June/July 2020 issue of Dream of Italy. When I dream of Italy, I dream of the soul knowing that happens on a warm September day, late afternoon. Bright sun, light breeze, San Gimignano rising on the hill like a beacon from the valley below. Cypress trees line our view, framing the city on the hill …

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Share Your Dream: Padua, Venice’s Hotter Younger Brother (June/July 2020)

This is the longer version of an article that originally appeared in the June/July 2020 issue of Dream of Italy. When I dream of Italy, I dream of Padua, Venice’s hotter younger brother! A rainy New York winter Sunday in 2017 sent me rushing into the Rizzoli bookstore on Broadway, where a red bound book Aperitvo by Marisa Huff called out to …

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Share Your Dream: A Pine Tree Trail at the Beach (June/July 2020)

This article originally appeared in the June/July 2020 issue of Dream of Italy. When I dream of Italy, I dream of the many summers we spent on the beach in Pineto, in the region of Abruzzo. Not only is it one of the best beaches on the Adriatic coast, Pineto offers a hiking trail in the pine grove that runs along the beach. …

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