Why do WASPs and Brit-oriented people love Italia so much? I don't know the answer.
Novelist Tim Parks writes about living in Verona with his Italian wife. We love Verona. Siena too.
Michael Dibdin writes (correction - wrote) wonderful detective mystery/thrillers set in Italia. Good stuff.
Where is the best food in Italy? Bologna, or Norcia? The food in Rome, and south of Rome, is not very enticing.