Italy Reading
Discover the best books set in Italy with our curated reading list featuring literary classics like The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, and A Room with a View—perfect for Italy travel inspiration and book lovers.
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Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
In Kublai Khan's garden, at sunset, the young Marco Polo diverts the aged emperor from his obsession with the impending end of his empire with tales of countless cities past, present, and future.
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The Marble Faun
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Murder and romance, innocence and experience dominate this sinister novel set in mid-19th-century Rome. Three young American artists and their friend, an Italian count, find their lives irrevocably linked when one of them commits a violent crime of passion. Hawthorne's final novel is "must reading" for its symbolic narrative of the Fall of Man.
