Italy Fever: 14 Ways to Satisfy Your Love Affair with Italy

Memoir and Pre-Travel Companion. Marwitz departs from her architectural background and succumbs to the pleasures of Italy---all year long, newewing her post-forty spirit by following a passion and by indulging in engaging (and often humorous ways) to feed an Italy fever. She shares old and new ideas and humble experiences to help readers discover, interpret, and incorporate "pieces" of Italy into their own lives. From talking to a map of Italy on her walls to learning finger counting in Italian, from collecting old postcards of Venice and Rome to sampling gelato combinations and calling it "research," from craving the music of Andrea Bocelli to overdosing on Verdi and Puccini, from stalking used bookstores for Italy-looking and -sounding titles to marathon movie weekends via video---she is smitten, even obsessed with all things Italian.