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Suggested Travel Reading
Books about Istanbul
Some suggestions from Blue Guides’ historical consultant Charles Freeman I haven’t been to Istanbul for some years, so it is good to be going back at last, to set up a tour I shall be leading in October. Of course, I shall be keen to put the new Blue Guide to…
Reading list for Florence and Tuscany
Taken from Blue Guide Tuscany, 5th edition (2009) FlorenceGene A. Brucker Renaissance Florence (Wiley, 1969). An excellent and very readable historical introduction.Margaret Haines (ed.) The Years of the Cupola 1417-1436. A fascinating digital archive of the sources of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, now available on line at www.operaduomo.firenze.it/cupola.Amanda…
Reading list for Venice
This reading list is taken from Blue Guide Venice, 8th edition (2007). And Blue Guide Literary Companion Venice (2009) is an anthology of writing about or set in Venice: The number of books that have been written about Venice is enormous. Ever since the first published descriptions of the city appeared…
Reading list for Rome
Unlike the Blue Guides to Florence and Venice, Blue Guide Rome does not include a list of recommended reading. Blue Guide Literary Companion Rome is due out Dec 2010, a sister volume to the Blue Guide Literary Companion Venice, to be joined by London in Spring 2011. In any case…