Preface--Anne Calcagno

Introduction--Jan Morris

A Fiume Runs Through It--Thom Elkjer

The Measure of All Things--Libby Lubin

Facciamo Le Corna--Tim Parks

Pornosaint of the Extinguished Lights--Andrea Lee

A Bank in Palermo--Natalie Galli

The Olive Harvest--Mary Taylor Simeti

Baby's a Bonus--Clara Hemphill

Five Ways of Escape--Jonathan Keates

Venice Again--Maureen Ann Jennings

Imagining the Flood--Robert Hellenga

My Roman Intimacies--Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

In the Shadow of Vesuvius--Thomas Belmonte

Signor Bananas--Duncan Fallowell

Mediolanum--H.V. Morton

The Invisible Trattoria--Miranda Mowbray

Underground Rome--Tom Mueller

Living Briefly Like a Roman--Susan Spano

Cinque Terre--Georgia I. Hesse

The Working World of Venice--William G. Scheller

Feast in Puglia--Fred L. Gardaphe

Walking to Assisi--Patricia Hampl

On Climbing the Dome of St. Peters--Jeanne Conte

Etruscan Sunlight--Frances Mayes

A Trulli Rich Woman--Kelly Simon

Ancient Islands--Theresa M. Maggio

The Hall of Maps--James Gardner

Sibling Rivalry, Italian Style--Elizabeth Roper Marcus

The Sands of Thyme--Bob Shacochis

What's in a Name?--Vince Sturla

Adventures in Leather--Catherine Thorpe

Seravezza--Matthew Spender

Night Swimmer--Kevin Dipirro

Body and Soul--Stanley Crouch

Big Butts and Walnuts--Douglas Rennie

Indirections to Rome--Donald Gecewicz

Rocking the Gondola--Jan Warner

The Errant Steps of Wooden Shoes--Adria Bernardi

Vacationing with Your Mom--Henry Alford

The Visible Man--Trey Ellis

Lunch at Pensione Suisse--David Robinson

The Children of Magna Graecia--Tom Mueller

Sleepwalking in Italy--Laura J. Aymond

Satyric--Matthew Spender

Una Bustarella--Tim Parks

The Italian Mistress--Luigi Barzini

Sagra di Polenta--Gary Paul Nabhan

The Nicholas Effect--Margaret Green

Are the Germans Gone?--Ivo John Lederer

The Waters of Clitumnus--H. V. Morton