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Traveling to Italy in Books

It’s been a while (two years, actually) since I’ve offered a little roundup of books about Italy that I recommend. Not long ago I reviewed “My Two Italies,” by Joseph Luzzi, and I received lots of...

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The Definitive Guide for the Permesso di Soggiorno

There is so much to love about living in Italy: the food, the art, the history, the weather, the scenery. “The bureaucracy,” however, is conspicuously absent from this list. As any expat can tell you,...

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Solo Travel in Italy

Ciao a tutti! Today I’m pleased to bring back my friend Victoria De Maio for a second guest post. We’ve been friends online for a while, but back in May of last year we got to hang out in Rome for a...

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Best Italy Blogs for 2015

Improbably, my blog has once again stumbled its way onto Italy Magazine’s prestigious list of best Italy blogs. I had thought last year’s win was a fluke, perhaps some glitch in the voting system that...

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Rick’s Italy Blog Tour 2015

Once upon a time, just traveling cross-country was a labor-intensive task and a logistical challenge, to say the least. It required months of planning, tons of equipment, and several strong horses,...

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Una Lettera dalla Florida

A few years ago I took a course in creative writing in Italian at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. It was given by my friend, Professor Emanule Pettener, an accomplished fiction writer, who...

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