Guides: Alumni Travel Reading: Apulia

In Film

Il viaggio della sposa (The Bride's Journey; 1997). Directed by Sergio Rubini.

Set in the 17th-century, this film includes beautiful landscape shots of Apulia, particularly the city of Conversano (southeast of Bari) with some scenes shot in the farmland of Murgia and in the countryside of Gravina in Puglia, Altamura, Bitonto, Noci, and Vieste.

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Io non ho paura (I'm Not Scared; 2003). Directed by Gabriele Salvatores.

An acclaimed film treatment of Niccolò Ammaniti's popular 2001 Italian novel of the same name, set in Apulia.

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LaCapaGira (The Head Turns; 2000). Directed by Alessandro Piva.

A film shot in Bari, with dialogue in heavy Bari dialect, requiring subtitles--even in Italy. Includes scenes shot in the historic district of Bari.

Apulia

Ostruni, Apulia. Courtesy of commons.wikimedia.org.

Bibliographer

Selected and Annotated By:

Richard Griscom
Director of Collections and Liaison ServicesM
griscom@pobox.upenn.edu

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In Books

Head over Heel by Harris
ISBN: 185788521X
Publication Date: 2010-10-05
An account of the Australian author's move to Apulia to live with an Italian woman he met by chance while visiting Ireland. Although the relationship is the driving force of the narrative, the focus is on his transition to life in southern Italy.

Not available through the Penn library system.

Borrow it from your local library.
Castel del Monte: Geometric Marvel of the Middle Ages by Heinz Götze
Call Number: NA7756.C35 G6813 1998
ISBN: 3791319302
Publication Date: 1998-04-01
A lush, illustrated book that ties the design of the Castel del Monte, built under the reign of Frederick II, to the culture of the Middle Ages and the intricacies of Arab geometry.

Available for purchase here.

Find it in a library near you.