"The author has achieved the near impossible...a must-squeeze-into-hand-baggage or the back pack."-- House and Garden "A minor classic."-- The Times Literary Supplement This personal, and wonderfully well-informed, selection of the most rewarding towns, cities, villages, and individual monuments in Italy is the definitive guidebook for the discerning traveler. The author has been visiting Italy, for study, for work, and for pleasure, for over fifty...