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Rome and Italy in Literature and Film

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Suggested reading for the holidays and traveling

 
 
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Fictionalized History

  • Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
    by Dava Sobel
    Penguin, 2000
    ISBN: 0140280553

  • Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
    by Ross King
    Penguin, 2003
    ISBN: 0142003697

  • Rome: The Biography of a City
    by Christopher Hibbert
    Penguin, 1998
    ISBN: 0140070788

  • The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
    by Irving Stone
    Signet, 1996
    ISBN: 0451171357

  • Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
    by Ross King
    Penguin, 2001
    ISBN: 0142000159

  • The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
    by Christopher Hibbert
    Perennial, 1999
    ISBN: 0688053394


 
Current Issues

  • All the Pope's Men : The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks
    by John Allen
    Doubleday, 2004
    ISBN 0385509669

  • Conclave: The Politics, Personalities, and Process of the Next Papal Election
    by John Allen
    Image, 2002
    0385504535

 

Literature

  • Decameron
    Giovanni Boccaccio

  • The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Giorgio Vasari
    Oxford, 1998
    ISBN: 019283410X

 

Pure Fiction

  • Angels & Demons
    by Dan Brown
    Pocket Star, 2001
    ISBN: 0671027360

 

Film

  • Roma, Cittเ Aperta

  • Fellini's Roma

  • Il Sorpasso

  • I Soliti Ignoti

  • Il Postino

  • La Vita ่ Bella

  • Uomo delle Stelle

  • Da Zero a Dieci