Italy in Mind: An Anthology
Italy has long been associated with love, images of Romeo serenading Juliet, and over-sexed  locals pinching tourist flesh. But another Italian love affair has been going on for just as long, namely the  writers who've been enchanted with the place for centuries. Alice Powers has collected an anthology of 41  authors spanning two centuries and all of Italy. There's Lord Byron on Venice, Herman Melville on Padua,  Michael Ondaatje on Tuscany, Charles Dickens on Genoa, Richard Wilbur on Rome, Mark Twain on  Naples, and Calvin Trillin on Sicily, for a feast of fine literature set in glorious surroundings.