Few places in Europe have attracted foreigners as Italy has. Since the times of Goethe's Italian Journey, followed by the aristocrats of half of Europe, the Peninsula has been the destination of pilgrimages of the young off-springs of the European Intelligentsia, artists, musicians and noblemen who came here to spend the winter. The "Englishmen" of Room with a View were really Americans, Russians, Germans and Poles. But it didn't matter. All of them, in the past as today, were fascinated with the vegetation, the climate, with the art and...why not, with the cuisine. We published this...

Few places in Europe have attracted foreigners as Italy has. Since the times of Goethe's Italian Journey, followed by the aristocrats of half of Europe, the Peninsula has been the destination of pilgrimages of the young off-springs of the European Intelligentsia, artists, musicians and noblemen who came here to spend the winter. The "Englishmen" of Room with a View were really Americans, Russians, Germans and Poles. But it didn't matter. All of them, in the past as today, were fascinated with the vegetation, the climate, with the art and...why not, with the cuisine. We published this...