Recommended films & reading, Italy
Recommended Films (Name and Director)
1900 Bernardo Bertolucci
A Room With A View James Ivory
The Bicycle Thief Vittorio Di Sica
Cinema Paradiso Giuseppe Tornatore
Ciao, Professore! Lina Wertmüller
Death In Venice Luchino Vistonti
Enchanted April Mike Newell
Everybody’s Fine Giuseppe Tornatore
Italian for Beginners Lorn Scherfig
Il Postino (The Postman) Michael Radford
La Dolce Vita Federico Fellini
La Vita è Bella (Life Is Beautiful) Roberto Benigni
Malena Giuseppe Tornatore
Recommended Reading (a very brief list)
A Traveler In Southern Italy H.V. Morton
Any Four Women Could Rob a Bank in Italy Anna Cornellson
Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Rennaissance Genius
Reinvented Archtecture Ross King
Desiring Italy (collected writings) Teresa Neunzig Cahill
Innocents Abroad Mark Twain
Italian Days Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Italian Hours Henry James
Italian Stories (dual language) Robert A. Hall
The Italian Way Costantino and Gambello
The Italians Luigi Barzini
Italy In Mind: An Anthology Alice Leccese Powers
The Leopard Giuseppi Lampedusa
New Italian Women: A Collection of Short Fiction
Martha King (Editor)
The Stone Boudoir: Travels through
the Hidden Villages of Sicily Theresa Maggio
A Traveler’s History of Italy Valerio Lintner
Uniform Justice (author has written this
and other mysteries about Venice) Donna Leon
Venice Observed Mary McCarthy
Venetian Stories Jane Turner Rylands
The World of Venice Jan Morris
