Alumni Travel Reading Lists 2024: Apulia-Undiscovered Italy

The authors look at the patterns of settlement and land use over time from the Neolithic to Late Medieval eras. The text includes the results of a field survey (1996-2006) in the Basentello valley; discoveries of earlier field surveys in the late 1960s and early 1970s; a synthesis of the results of recent scholarship using archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources to reconstruct an archaeological history of the valley and the surrounding area.

This book offers a collection of essays on Byzantine Italy. Chapter 16 includes a chapter on "Byzantine Apulia" by Paul Arthur

The focus of this book is on the Italic people of Apulia during the fourth century BC, when Italic culture seems to have reached its peak of affluence.

You can borrow this book from the Internet Archive for one hour at a time. Provides architectural drawings, interior photographs, and a geographical and historical narrative.

This six-volume, illustrated boxed-set lists and describes, region by region, Italy's vast array of classical monuments, churches, monasteries, cathedrals, palaces, villas and fortresses, detailing their architectural features, artistic contents and historical significance. Volume 5 is devoted to Southern Italy. Widely available in libraries.

The author takes the reader on a journey around the Adriatic Sea, through Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, and Greece, to see the region as it is now and to describe how it has changed.

The Adriatic is part of the Mediterranean and at the same time detached from it. It is a largely enclosed sea with a long history of commercial, political and cultural exchange as well as a beautiful coastline. This book tells the history of the Adriatic from the first cultures of the Neolithic Age through to the present day. Histories and cultures include those of Ancient Greece and Rome, Byzantium and the Holy Roman Empire, Venice and the Ottomans, Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, and Islam.

An epic novel of four friends as they grapple with love, desire, youth, and death. Set in Puglia

The novel is set around a crumbling farmhouse in Puglia, Casa Rosa. As the owner prepares to sell the family home, she relives her memories of child and family providing a broad sweep of history.

The summer of 1992 is a cold one in southern Italy. But that's not what makes it memorable. The chilling Mafia violence currently sweeping Sicily has spread to Puglia, much to the consternation of Pietro Fenoglio, a local officer of the Carabinieri.(from the publisher)

A comprehensive compendium of recipes from each region of Italy including a review of each area's history and culinary influences. Includes Apulia

Explores the connections between food and memory. International in scope, this book includes a chapter on Apulia