Two Gents In Italy

In 2017, the author and his partner of thirty-five years embarked on what they had planned as a 'gap year' between the end of their working lives and the start of retirement proper. What followed ended up being three years spent travelling all over the Italian Peninsula. This book is the result of that journey.Part memoir, part meditation on Italian history and culture, the book is structured as a series of essays that can be read sequentially or dipped in and out of as the reader chooses. Chapters cover such diverse subjects as the Italian obsession with food, Napoleon's encounter with the islanders of Elba, opera and Shakespeare, and the art of the Renaissance.