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This article originally appeared in the March 2016 issue of Dream of Italy. Updated 2018. Those of us who have had the buona fortuna to travel to Italy multiple times — who among us has not once (or twice) had a dream of Italy involving relocation? We all know the Frances Mayes story in Under the Tuscan Sun, but sometimes the …

This article by Wendy Olsen originally appeared in the March 2016 issue of Dream of Italy. Updated 2018. I awoke a few months after arriving in Milan, finally in my own appartamento.  The muggy morning heat was smothering. I was relishing my 10 minutes lying in bed, encapsulated in my 700-count cotton thread, Missoni sheets. My future mother-in-law had ironed my …

This article by Suzanne Ma originally appeared in the March 2016 issue of Dream of Italy. Updated 2018. The last few times I traveled to Italy, I ate very little pasta, spoke very little Italian and saw very few Italian people. I spent most of my time with Chinese immigrants, with Chinese shopkeepers in Prato, with Chinese students in Bologna, and …

This article by Katherine Wilson originally appeared in the March 2016 issue of Dream of Italy. Updated 2018. “Vieni, vieni,” the Roman grandmother calls me over. Come over here. She’s found the last ray of sunshine on this spring afternoon, and is turning her wrinkled face toward it like a sunflower. Like many wise Italians, she moves with the sun so …