With or Without Leaving your Armchair: Literary Guides to Italy

Not your regular guidebook: the literary guides featured below accompany you in the discovery of Italy and its most famous cities through the eyes and experiences of the writers who were inspired by it.

They are the perfect travel companion during your Italy trips, but they are also great if, at the moment, you can only travel with your mind.

Pick from a guide featuring Italy’s rising literary stars alongside some of its best-known writers from the past, or check an entertaining anthology of letters, diaries, novels, and poetry written in or about Rome. Retrace the footsteps of the writers who lived in Tuscany, or walk around Venice and stumble upon the sites that have been described in so much literature. Finally, find the locations in which Shakespeare set at least 10 of his extraordinary plays.

Happy literary travels!