Archive: BOOK OF THE MONTH

Book of the Month

A suggestion from Peter Panton, owner of Panton’s English Bookshop, a favourite haunt of international book lovers in Milan. The Deadly Sisterhood: The Women Who Ruled Italy During the Renaissance by [read]

Book of the Month

A suggestion from Peter Panton, owner of Panton’s English Bookshop, a favourite haunt of international book lovers in Milan. The Spirit of Venice: From Marco Polo to Casanova by Paul Strathern. The [read]

The Shakespeare Guide to Italy

A suggestion from Peter Panton, owner of Panton’s English Bookshop, a favourite haunt of international book lovers in Milan. The Shakespeare Guide to Italy - Retracing the Bard’s Unknown Travels By Richard [read]

Death in Florence

Death in Florence: the Medici, Savonarola and the Battle for the Soul of the Renaissance City by Paul Strathern. By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as [read]

The Pursuit of Italy

A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples by David Gilmour. Visiting a villa built by Lorenzo de Medici outside Pisa, David Gilmour fell into conversation about the unification [read]

Pictures From Italy

A suggestion from Peter Panton, owner of Panton’s English Bookshop, a favourite haunt of international book lovers in Milan. Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens Published by Penguin Classics In 1844, [read]

Book of the Month

A suggestion from Peter Panton, owner of Panton’s English Bookshop, a favourite haunt of international book lovers in Milan. “Italian Splendor: Great Castles, Palaces, and Villas” by Roberto Schezen Published by [read]

Book of the Month

“The Art of Living Italian Style” by Edmund Howard. For over two thousand years, Italy has been a major source of cultural and artistic inspiration to the rest of the [read]

Book of the Month

A suggestion from Peter Panton, owner of Panton’s English Bookshop, a favourite haunt of international book lovers in Milan. “Invitation to Milan” by Mario De Biasi (Ed. Magnus Edizioni) is a [read]

Book of the Month

A suggestion from Peter Panton, owner of Panton’s English Bookshop, a favourite haunt of international book lovers in Milan. “You’ll soon get the hang of it”, the side-splitting bestseller, supported by [read]