Buonasera!

Hi and welcome! I do not know how many writers there are in the Community, I can remember at leat two, but there are quite a few members interested in books and literature.

Hi Dreamer,  I am in Emilia Romagna my book 'The diary of a single parent abroad' is about my life since moving here 9 yrs ago. Paperback - http://www.feedaread.com/books/The-diary-of-a-single-parent-abroad-9781781765456.aspx Do you have a link to your book? If you are on Facebook there is a group that puts all the Italy expat wriers together. pm me if you want details.

Thank you for replying. If I can work out how to do it, I'll send you a private message but in the meantime, my book is called "Never Forget" and it is available on Amazon (also on Kindle) as well as www.authorsonline.co.uk At present I am working on a story with la transumanza as the background and am enjoying researching this - including a plan to walk part of the routes used by the butteri and drovers, in late spring, early summer. One of my resources is : "I percorsi della transumanza in Toscana" by Marcaccini and Calzolai. Does anybody have other recommendations for me? Grazie!

In one of the Abruzzo blogs (may have been this one https://www.facebook.com/lifeinabruzzo?fref=ts) I came across a wonderful description from the mid 19th century by an English traveller about the transhumance in  Abruzzo (or "the Abruzzi" as they seemed to call it then).  Best of all, he was travelling by horseback and with a little terrier! I don't have the document to hand, it's on my bookshelf in Italy, but you may find an Abruzzo resident will come along in due course. I'll go and look you book up now.  I have a special interest in italians' experience of WW2 and am always looking for more books on the subject