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Books about Florence Italy

Books about Florence ItalyMany of my customers, during guided tours, ask me where they can buy books about Florence Italy. The answer is simple: there is a bookstore selling English books close to the Duomo, in via Delle Oche, and they also have a website: Paperback Exchange. If you are not physically in Florence, you can buy online. There can be many reasons why you want to read books about Florence Italy. It’s a famous travel destination so maybe you want a travel guide, but there are many more books that can be very interesting. When someone invites me for dinner or for a party, it’s such a nice thing when I can find a beautiful photography book on the table in front of his sofa. Be it about nature, architecture, arts in general, I always enjoy taking a look. Well, we have wonderful photography books on Florence. If you have been here or plan to come, maybe you can be interested in the novels that take place in Florence, or you want to know more about a particular attraction, or want to read about the history of the city and the biographies of the great geniuses of the renaissance. Whatever your reason, here you will find useful suggestions to buy books about Florence Italy.

 

Travel guides

If you are preparing your trip to Florence, you probably want to know what to expect in this wonderful city. This website contains a lot of information, but if you feel like you need a travel guide, then choose one of my recommended books.

Rick Steves’ Pocket Florence

An Art Lover’s Guide to Florence

Lonely Planet Pocket Florence & Tuscany (Travel Guide)

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Art and Photography

Have you been in Florence, would you like to have a book with wonderful pictures, to feel again the “magic”? Or, do you just want a book to amaze your guests with beautiful images? Choose one of my recommended art and photography books.

Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743

Florence Art and Architecture

The Wonders of Florence

 

Fiction

Here are the best-seller novels set in Florence. From the recent 4th book by Dan Brown (Inferno), to Hannibal, to A Room with a view, the romantic novel written back in 1908 and filmed in Florence in 1985.

Inferno: A Novel (Robert Langdon Book 4)

Hannibal

A Room with a View (Dover Thrift Editions)

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Biographies

Here are some books for who wants to know more about the biographies of the great geniuses of the Renaissance. We have the largest collection of artist biographies in Vasari’s Lives, but I also recommend books about the life of the two greatest renaissance artists: Michelangelo and Da Vinci.

The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Modern Library Classics)

The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo

Leonardo: The Artist and the Man

 

History

Read about the political intrigues, the violent conspiracies, the mix of arts, business, power and religion that ignited the renaissance in Florence, thanks to a family of bankers: the House of Medici.

The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall

Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City

April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici

 

Attractions

Would you like to know more on a particular attraction that you saw in Florence, or go in-depth on some of the greatest world heritage? These are my suggestions.

Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

Uffizi Gallery Museum

From Marble to Flesh. The Biography of Michelangelo’s David

 

Cooking

Discover the culinary traditions of Florence with the best Tuscan recipes, and become an expert of our tasty wines.

Williams-Sonoma Foods of the World: Florence: Authentic Recipes Celebrating the Foods of the World

Florentine: The true cuisine of Florence

Native Wine Grapes of Italy

 

Poetry

Did you know that Florence is the cradle of the Italian language? The Medieval Florentine poets like Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio were among the first to abandon Latin and write in the spoken vernacular. And even Michelangelo was a poet!

Dante’s Inferno

Selected Poems from Michelangelo Buonarroti…

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

 

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Books about Florence Italy (and DVDs)
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Books about Florence Italy (and DVDs)
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A list of the best books and DVDs about Florence Italy.
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