Customer Reviews:
 Stunning November 25, 2008
This book is stunning! The pictures and beautiful descriptions just make you want to get on an aeroplane and head over to Italy. I really enjoyed the accompanying televsion series but the book is great and written extremely well.
Cooffee table stunner September 18, 2006
18 out of 24 found this review helpful
Thankfully i managed to record all four episodes of Francescos very entertaining Top to Toe series on Italy onto disc.
His ladish exploits in that gorgeous Alfa Spider made the series a more lite hearted affair to his magnificent Venice,and his influnce in being one of the oldest Venitian families opened doors into fabulous palaces and villas that are barred to all members of the public.
Naturally he could not spend too long in the north of the country but witnessing Lucca, Puccinis birthplace and Bolognia the oldest university in the world made what he did choose trully excelleny.Veronia was where Shakespeare based Romeo and Juiliet but Shakey never visited the place.
The highlite of the series for me was when he travelled further south to the deeply religious areas where devotion was taken to extreams.
The poverty of Naples and his mothers birthplace Palermo in Sicilli was a real journey into the real Italy that few tourists get to see.
This book brings all that and more into a highly illustrated story of Italy at its very best.
His Top to Toe series is too young to have been released onto dvd but this book is a taster of the treat yet to come.
Charmed by the Silver Fox August 22, 2006
27 out of 29 found this review helpful
Francesco da Mosto, an engaging Venetian aristocrat, expands on his earlier fond tribute to his home city, to create a even fonder tribute to his home country. He is a great guide to the cultural pleasures and history of Italy, and his enthusiasm is infectious; the photos in the book are wonderful, too, and all in all, this would make a great gift for anyone who has ever been transported by (or to) Italy.
Francesco's Italy, Fantastic June 26, 2006
24 out of 29 found this review helpful
This is a wonderfully written book with beautiful pictures to support a super tour from the top to the bottom of Italy.
If you have been there it is a wonderful reminder, if you are new to this outstanding country it is taste of all that awaits you.
 Francesco in text. June 24, 2006
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
A thoroughly enoyable read, and at the discounted price cannot be overlooked. I expected more submersion in the various regional cultures; somehow these do not transmit as well as they do in the TV series. However this must be one of the 2006 summer essentials for those of us who seek a little more than a package of short stop overs in provincial Italian towns.
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