You only have so many trips around the sun; so travel the world to visit fascinating places, meet
interesting people, and sample every cuisine. And Italy has so much to offer!
FANNY BURNEY (1752-1840)
ENGLISH NOVELIST AND PLAYWRIGHT
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)
ENGLISH WRITER, POET AND PLAYWRIGHT
A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see.
MARLENA DE BLASI
AMERICAN NOVELIST AND MEMOIRIST
All of Venice is tattered, resewn, achingly lovely, and like an enchantress, she disarms me, making off with the very breath of me.
GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813-1901)
ITALIAN OPERA COMPOSER
You may have the world if I may have Italy
FRANCES MAYES
AMERICAN NOVELIST, MEMOIRIST AND PROFESSOR
I find other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.
D.H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930)
ENGLISH WRITER, NOVELIST, POET
For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery
