Florence is the city I love the most in Italy and I would even say the most (in competition with London). So many memories in this city, dating so far away and with so many friends. I love the colours of this town, the sound of this singing language, the streets that lead all to the duomo and then suddenly, around a corner, a piazza that you have never seen. Reading books set in Florence is an absolute pleasure when you can extract the exact location that the author is describing from your brain.
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Guardian’s series is introduced by Christobel Kent, who wrote several thrillers set in Florence, the last one that triggered this article being “The Viper”. She chose for this series books showing the dark side of Florence, dangerous, seductive, chiaroscuro.
Books read
A Room with a View – E. M. Forster (1908)
Innocence – Penelope Fitzgerald (1986)
Florence: A Delicate Case – David Leavitt (2002)
Books to read
The Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio
The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici – Christopher Hibbert
Secrecy – Rupert Thomson
A Tale of Poor Lovers – Vasco Pratolini
The Monster of Florence – Magdalen Nabb
Hannibal – Thomas Harris
My Cousin Rachel – Daphne du Maurier