Northern Italy: Key Reading
Eloise Danto's Undiscovered Museums of Florence (Surrey Books) is, unfortunately, out of print in the United States, but it can be ordered from booksellers in Great Britain. An excellent guide (in Italian) to Turin's large and small museums, Musei d'Italia—Torino, is in local bookstores (Touring Club Torino, $10). Among the best English-language books about individual museums are: Masterpieces from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation Collection, a superb handbook with a page dedicated to each artwork (Nuova Alfa Editoriale, $15; on sale at the museum); Encyclopaedia Anatomica, about the waxworks of La Specola and nearly as quirky—and gruesome—as the museum itself (Taschen, $30; abridged, $10); and Shoes and Famous Feet, a large-format bilingual catalog of the Ferragamo exhibition (Elemond Electa, $33).
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