Review: Makes You Feel Like You are Really There :)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2013
Sara Bruni clearly loves Italy and knows a lot about the country of her birth. Her latest book The Inferno Experience: Florence is a great way to learn more about one of Italy's most beautiful cities -- Florence.Being Dante Alighieri's place of birth, there are many places in Florence that center very much around him and the art his famous works have inspired. Sara Bruni takes the reader all over Florence while almost very lovingly describing every feature, works of art, famous structures, and statues along the way. Clearly, the Inferno's influence is all over the city.What I really love about this book is the way the author is able to attach the history of an object or statue or building without making it appear like a boring history lesson. For example, the way she describes the way the Duomo or the Santa Maria del Fiore was being planned and how architects were asked to submit their designs for the dome is just wonderful. It is short yet very interesting. Especially the way she writes about Brunelleschi's Egg.The pictures are also wonderful. I love the way she has chosen a few but very beautiful pictures for her book. For someone who has never been to Italy, let alone Florence (like me), reading the book is almost like being there and taking a guided tour of the city.