{"id":24261,"count":19,"description":"The best books on Italy: we've asked novelists, academics and one chef to recommend which books to read to learn more about Italy, its food, its culture, its art and its history.\r\n\r\nBooks on notable Italians include Julius Caesar<\/a>, Marco Polo<\/a>, Isabella de\u2019 Medici<\/a>, Christopher Columbus<\/a>, Galileo<\/a>, Dante<\/a>, Leonardo da Vinci<\/a>, Verdi<\/a>, and Elena Ferrante<\/a>.\r\n\r\nItalian authors frequently recommended on Five Books<\/em> include: Natalia Ginzburg<\/a>, Umberto Eco<\/a> and Primo Levi.<\/a>\r\n\r\nWe also have sections on some of the most popular Italian cities; Venice<\/a> and Ancient Rome<\/a>.\r\n\r\nDue to Italy's enviable geographic position, it's historically been home to myriad peoples and cultures that have all contributed to its culture and literature.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/europe\/italy\/","name":"Italy","slug":"italy","taxonomy":"category","parent":5304,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/24261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5304"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=24261"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=24261"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=24261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}