February 18, 2018

A Travel Book Club

February 18, 2018/ Michelle Damiani

What we've been reading for Travel Book Club, and how to join!

October 17, 2016

Movies set in Italy

October 17, 2016/ Michelle Damiani

Looking for a movie set in Italy? Look no further...

November 07, 2015

Top 5 Books to Understand Italy

November 07, 2015/ Michelle Damiani

Top 5 Books that offer a window into Italian culture, history, and spirit.

October 18, 2015

Top 5 Books of Ever

October 18, 2015/ Michelle Damiani

These are the books that lingered—forever books.

October 18, 2015

Top 5 Books about Food and/or Cooking

October 18, 2015/ Michelle Damiani

My favorite books about cooking, food, and cooking with food.

Michelle Damiani

Website for Michelle Damiani, author of Il Bel Centro: A Year in the Beautiful Center, the funny and heartfelt memoir of an American family living in Spello, as well as Santa Lucia, a page-turner set on the Umbria border.

Santa Lucia

By Michelle Damiani

Storybook Italian villages only look sleepy. Read the novel inspired by our year in Spello.

Il Bel Centro: A Year in the Beautiful Center

By Michelle Damiani

A year in Umbria transforms an American family. Read how it all began.

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The nice thing about being obsessed with the GBBS is that when you and your daughter decide to focus on baking a Savarin instead of actual dinner, you can treat neighbors to leftovers.

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Churches don’t have to be big and fancy to inspire awe and a sense of the eternal. #bologna #santostefano #awe #italytravel

My daughter is right. I seem to have an #Italian lamp fixation. #italytravel #italianlamps #italiancities

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Ciao, Italia. Alla prossima volta. #sulmona #abruzzo #abruzzo_in_foto #familytravel

Espresso + confetti = caffetti! A treat in #Sulmona and too tasty for its own good. #abruzzo #nofilter #nofilterneeded #foodietravel

Pensive in #Ravenna. There’s a lot to think about. #instaravenna #emigliaromagna

That’s a rose the more-than-tipsy owner of the restaurant insisted Gabe offer me after our extraordinary meal, a lemon and bergamot popsicle from my new favorite gelateria, the sunset colors of Bologna all around, and me. Very happy. #bologna #nofilter #nofilterneeded #bolognatoday

Boys in Bologna.

Cats of Spello. #catsofspello #cats

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Started to look for a zucchini flower recipe when I remembered, hey! isn't that in my book? 🤣 Easy and fabulous: re… https://t.co/JWElMqf3We
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Books and Movies

Book lovers, here's your spot. Pull up a cozy chair, a glass of vin santo, and peruse these books. I hope you'll stumble upon a new favorite, I hope you'll share your own favorites!

I'm starting small, but have lists almost ready to go of favorite expat memoirs, favorite travel memoirs, favorite Italian cookbooks, and more. So check back often, or even better, sign up for my newsletter (on the right), and I'll let you know when there is new content here.