To Italy, With Love

To Italy, With Love
Author: Nicky Pellegrino
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1398701033

'An uplifting and delicious taste of Italy' ERICA JAMES 'The perfect recipe for the ultimate escapist read!' VERONICA HENRY 'Knowing, compassionate and moving' CATHERINE ROBERTSON The scenery is swoonsome' STEVE BRAUNIAS Love happens when you least expect it... Assunta has given up on love. She might run her little trattoria in the most romantic mountain town in Italy, but love just seems to have passed her by. Sarah-Jane is finished with love. She's hiring an old convertible and driving around Italy this summer - it's the perfect way to forget all about her hot celebrity ex-boyfriend! But when Sarah-Jane's car breaks down in Montenello, she has to stay longer than she intended! And the trouble is, love is everywhere... Praise for Nicky Pellegrino 'A novel about the joy of learning to live again. It also made me very hungry!' Jojo Moyes 'Warm, engaging and truly delicious' Rosanna Ley 'A delicious and sensual adventure . . . as evocative and captivating as Venice itself' Fiona Gibson 'A wonderfully evocative setting and mouth-watering descriptions of Venetian food' Pamela Hartshorne 'Full-bodied as a rich Italian red, it's a page-turner combining the missed chances of Captain Corelli's Mandolin with the foodie pleasures of Chocolat' Eve 'Three generations of Italian women talk romance and cooking . . . an evocative foodfest of a novel' Prima 'A slice of pure sunshine' Good Housekeeping 'A lovely read . . . with a genuine heart and true observation' Elizabeth Buchan 'A touching story about one woman's search for love' Sunday Express 'Set against a backdrop of love, friendship and food . . . The descriptions of Italian food will make your mouth water' Cosmopolitan 'Sink back on the sofa with this delightful read' Now Magazine Readers are loving Nicky Pellegrino! 'I could smell the fresh pasta, feel the sunshine, smell the sea breeze and feel my worries wash away. It was lovely to stumble down the cobbled paths and stroll along the beautiful scenery' 'Through Italy, through food, through heartbreak, through love, through family. Add in a pinch of karmic justice and you have the perfect read with a joyful ending!' 'Once again Nicky Pellegrino had me captivated with this amazing story. It made me laugh, made me cry. I read it in one afternoon' 'I will say that if you are a woman on the cusp of discovering who you are and what your heart desires...then you will devour this book as I did' 'Such a great escapism read, full of emotions and family drama with love'

For the Love of Italy

For the Love of Italy
Author: Marella Caracciolo Chia
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2010
Genre: Agritourism
ISBN: 0307452484

From grand views and romantic hillside villas to sprawling gardens and alfresco dinners, Italy offers its most authentic self through its landscape and its food. For the Love of Italy celebrates Italy's countryside and the farm-to-table movement with vivid profiles and luscious photography of twenty-two spectacular agriturismi, or hospitable farming estates. Each is inextricably connected to the Italian agricultural tradition and to the most simple of daily routines and pleasures. All will delight visitors with lovely accommodations and unforgettable graciousness. Marella Caracciolo, who has written extensively about travel in Italy from both sides of the Atlantic, and renowned photographer Oberto Gili present a sensual journey in this evocative collection of diverse landscapes, unmatched architecture, and local gastronomic traditions. One can stay at a Renaissance villa estate with breathtaking views, where biodynamic wine is produced, or at a unique luxury hotel in the prehistoric dwellings of Basilicata, where visitors sleep, bathe, and eat by candlelight. Families visiting Villa la Foce and the nearby thirteenth-century farmhouse in southern Tuscany, will discover exquisite gardens, a swimming pool, a tree house--and meals inspired by the bounty of the enormous vegetable garden and orchards. Caracciolo describes in transporting prose the colorful history and seasonal rhythms of these and nineteen other estates. And in Gili's photography the interiors, architecture, and gardens unfold with charm and grace. Whether one wants to learn traditional pasta making, sip Brunello right where it's made, or wander an ancient orangerie and then take a nap, these delightful farms promise unique and spectacular trips--or the fantasy of one. With a resource section that will be indispensable for anyone planning a trip to an agriturismo, For the Love of Italy is a portrait of an irresistible country and an enviable way of life.

In Italy for Love

In Italy for Love
Author: Leonie Mack
Publisher: Boldwood Books Ltd
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2024-10-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1836033478

Live your very own Italian dream and let bestseller Leonie Mack whisk you away. Julia Volpe’s Italian dream has turned into a nightmare. Still living with her ex, Luca, a year after they’ve broken up, desperate to sell the dilapidated B&B that was meant to be their future, Jules knows she needs to leave. There are just two problems. Her passport has expired and she’s broke. Not quite ready to ask her parents for help – at the ripe old age of twenty-seven – Jules decides to head as far away from Luca as she can to work on an olive farm until she has enough money to pay for her passport and a ticket back home. Jules has sworn off love, but she hadn’t bargained on the beauty of Cividale del Friuli, the ancient Italian town on the banks of the gloriously blue Natisone river. As the community of farmers, neighbours and locals generously welcome her into their lives, Jules can feel her defences crumbling. But it’s when she meets Alex, broodingly handsome yet charmingly gallant, that Jules truly knows she’s in trouble. Because Alex has sworn off love too, and his reasons run deep enough for him to keep his word just as Jules is starting to reconsider her resistance to romance. Romantic, spell-binding, truly touching and perfect for all fans of Jill Mansell, Mandy Baggot and Sarah Morgan. Readers love Leonie Mack: ‘It's a wonderful, complex story that is sad, happy and funny all at the same time.’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘My first Leonie Mack book and it won’t be my last. Loved the characterisation, the setting, the language, learning about Prosecco. Also dealt with a serious topic. Sympathetically handled. Loved it! More, please!’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘A great little story. Well written, researched, expressed, a lovely love story and a joy to pick up night after night before sleeping. Thank you Leonie Mack.’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘A thoroughly enjoyable story with a happy ending, what's not to like? **If only life was like this **more often.’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘This book had me so relaxed that I felt I was holidaying in the sun in Italy and not sat on my sofa at home in England. I loved every second of it.’⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Praise for Leonie Mack: ‘The perfect summer adventure!' Jennifer Bibby 'As funny as it is emotional, the story is full of tender moments and hilarious escapades as the pair travel across Europe – Leonie Mack creates a fabulous sense of place. A Wedding in the Sun is a wonderfully romantic read.' Helen Hawkins 'A wonderfully escapist read about second chances.' Carryl Church ‘I love her beautiful settings and brooding heroes!' Sarah Bennett 'A masterclass in how to put characters in near-impossible situations and bring them out on the other side in a totally believable way. A treat of a book – knotty premise, vivid characters and deft plot all equally good.' Sue Moorcroft 'A Wedding in the Sun is heartfelt, funny, and the perfect summer read.' Ally Wiegand 'An addictive, emotional rollercoaster of a romance, drenched in sunshine and laughter.' Emma Jackson ‘I love Leonie's books - so romantic!' Sandy Barker

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2008
Genre: Art del Renaixement
ISBN: 1588393003

"Many famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance were made to celebrate love, marriage, and family. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from early in the era, of commemorating betrothals, marriages, and the birth of children by commissioning extraordinary objects - maiolica, glassware, jewels, textiles, paintings - that were often also exchanged as gifts. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of artworks arising from Renaissance rituals of love and marriage and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. The impressive range of works gathered in these pages extends from birth trays painted in the early fifteenth century to large canvases on mythological themes that Titian painted in the mid-1500s. Each work of art would have been recognized by contemporary viewers for its prescribed function within the private, domestic domain."--BOOK JACKET.

From Italy with Love

From Italy with Love
Author: Gail Gaymer Martin
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781593100810

Motivated by letters, four women travel to Italian cities and find love.

From Italy With Love

From Italy With Love
Author: Jules Wake
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2015-05-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 000812633X

Grab your passport and escape to Europe for the romance of a life time with this stunning romance read! 'Full of glamour, romance and sizzling sexual tension, but at its heart is a truly heart-warming tale of self discovery – you’ll not want to miss a moment of it' Chick Lit Love

Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

Love and Death in Renaissance Italy
Author: Thomas V. Cohen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2010-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226112608

Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted out justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabrous and the scandalous. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy retells six piquant episodes from the Italian court just after 1550, as the Renaissance gave way to an era of Catholic reformation. Each of the chapters in this history chronicles a domestic drama around which the lives of ordinary Romans are suddenly and violently altered. You might read the gruesome murder that opens the book—when an Italian noble takes revenge on his wife and her bastard lover as he catches them in delicto flagrante—as straight from the pages of Boccaccio. But this tale, like the other stories Cohen recalls here, is true, and its recounting in this scintillating work is based on assiduous research in court proceedings kept in the state archives in Rome. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy contains stories of a forbidden love for an orphan nun, of brothers who cruelly exact a will from their dying teenage sister, and of a malicious papal prosecutor who not only rapes a band of sisters, but turns their shambling father into a pimp! Cohen retells each cruel episode with a blend of sly wit and warm sympathy and then wraps his tales in ruminations on their lessons, both for the history of their own time and for historians writing today. What results is a book at once poignant and painfully human as well as deliciously entertaining.

Frances Mayes Always Italy

Frances Mayes Always Italy
Author: Frances Mayes
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2020
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 142622091X

"This lush guide, featuring more than 350 glorious photographs from National Geographic, showcases the best Italy has to offer from the perspective of two women who have spent their lives reveling in its unique joys."--Publisher's description.

My Love Affair with Italy

My Love Affair with Italy
Author: Debbie Mancuso
Publisher:
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2017-04-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9780998973210

The story of a single woman's travels to Italy from the age of 17 through retirement. The book details all the types of accommodations such as the agriturismi, the apartments, farmhouses, vineyards, and riding centers she stayed and the romances and friends acquired along the way. Each chapter begins with the author's life at home and the reasons she returns each time.

To Italy with Love

To Italy with Love
Author: Fiona Zedde
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2015-07-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781515016953

Getting away from it all doesn't necessarily mean escape. In these three stories, women leave their familiar spaces - countries, landscapes, states of mind - to discover uncharted, but not always idyllic, territories with lovers old and new. To Italy with Love introduces Iris, a newly dumped serial monogamist who travels to her friend's destination wedding. On the Amalfi Coast, she meets a much younger and casually provocative woman who challenges all the boundaries she's created for herself. Iris, queer and complicated, has a not-quite-secret she's unsure she's ready to share. But will her young lover pull all the way back when she discovers it? In That Girl, She's a Killer, mildly sociopathic Louisa has had her share of dangerous lovers, both male and female. But when a deadly former flame, someone who burns hotter than any fire she's ever dared touch, visits New York, Louisa tosses aside her careful and methodical life just to feel that delicious burn just one more time. Too soon, "once more" turns out to be not enough and the flame threatens to consume Louisa's legendary control. Vicissitudes tells Ro's story. The first time she remembers being herself, she was thirteen and female. When she next wakes, she is nearly thirty and rolls over in bed, naked, next to a beautiful woman, Alma, wearing an engagement ring. Ro knows exactly what happened in the years in between, and she knows when Alma opens her eyes, she will ask why her fiance has disappeared and left a woman with remarkably similar features in his place. It's going to be an interesting next few days."