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Based in Milan, this is the country's leading daily and has the best foreign news pages and the most comprehensive and comprehensible political coverage, with a predominantly conservative tendency.
A popular Rome-based broadsheet, it is especially good for news about Rome and the Vatican and has a weekly listings supplement, Metro.
A tabloid-format Rome-based paper that usually has great photos; however, it also has a reputation for sloppy reporting. Its Trovaroma supplement on Thursday provides entertainment listings. Its politics lean more or less ot the left. It puts out some useful regional supplements.
This conservative paper is published daily (with weekly editions in English and other foreign languages) and is the official voice of the Vatican.
State-owned, combines classical and light music with news broadcasts and discussion programs.
Broadcasts the news in English at 07:00 , 08:30 , 18:15 and 21:50 . The reports usually include a run-down on what the pope is up to on any particular day. Pick up a pamphlet at the Vatican information office.
The station for contemporary music.
Try this book for a simple introduction to the ancient history of the country.
An entertaining tale about renovating a tumbledown farmhouse in Tuscany.
This is a classic travelogue.
Although written in the 1960s, this remains a valuable guide to the south and its people.
This is a good introduction to Italian history.
A useful introduction to the art of the Italian Renaissance.
This is a sound place to start your reading on the Renaissance.
A look inside the house of Medici, the family that turned Florence into a world power during the Renaissance.
This engrossing, experimental study of the nature of reading and writing, involves the reader as a central character in what is ultimately a dizzying love story.
The genius of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), probably the greatest figure in Italian literature, confirmed the Italian vernacular (in its Florentine form) as a serious medium for poetic expression, particularly in The Divine Comedy - an allegorical masterpiece that takes his protagonist on a search for God through hell, purgatory and paradise.
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75) is considered the first Italian novelist. The Decameron is a collection of 100 short stories ranging from the bawdy to the earnest that chronicle the exodus of 10 young Florentines from their plague-ridden city.
Virgil's epic poem links the founding of Rome with the fall of Troy.
Cicero (106-43 BC) stands out at a time when the Roman Republic collapsed into civil war and gave way to dictatorial government. Cicero's writing, infused with political commitment, explored new terrain in Latin prose.
A rich, sensual account of the demise of Sicilian nobility and the rise of Italian nationhood.
A murder mystery with a religious twist, this novel set in a Benedictine monastery is a fascinating investigation of theology, philosophy and history.
Carlo Levi's memoir is a touching account of life as a political exile in a poor, remote village in southern Italy.
If you're looking for a spot of Edwardian romance, try this classic.
With deceptive ease and flowing prose, McCarthy opens up all sorts of views on these two città d'arte (cities of art).
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