Florence is full of hidden bookstore gems. Sure, you can find the current TikTok book favorites in Feltrinelli in Piazza della Repubblica, but there is nothing like a visit to a rare bookstore like Libreria Salimbeni on via Matteo Palmieri or digging through the books at the markets in Piazza
The Florentine – that indispensable guide to the arts and culture in Florence today – published our article A Florentine Resistance Story in English in its October Magazine edition. While you need a subscription to get the magazine and the glossy version of our article (you should subscribe as it
As thrilled as we are to see this book in print in English, we don’t want to forget where it came from. La Giuntina published Fra storia e memoria: Una famiglia ebraica triestina dal 1938 al secondo dopoguerra by Rossella Levi in 2021. If not for Giuntina, where would this
Spoiler alert! There was no act of betrayal, at least not by Renato Levi, the radio operator for the clandestine radio operation known as Radio CORA in Florence in June 1944. Levi would be accused of betraying the group by a former leader of the Tuscan Resistance some 30+ years
Several years ago, while in Florence, I ran across an article about Andreina Morandi Michelozzi, a young woman who was part of the Resistance in Florence in World War II. Her story was extraordinary. She wrote her memoir long after the war in a book called Le Foglie Volano: Appunti