Apulia: Undiscovered Italy

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Alumni Travel Reading Lists Penn Libraries

2013

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Recommended Citation Griscom, Richard, "Apulia: Undiscovered Italy" (2013). Alumni Travel Reading Lists. 1. https://repository.upenn.edu/alumni_reading/1

Griscom, R. (2013). Apulia: Undiscovered iitaly. In Penn Alumni Travel.

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Abstract Suggested readings for the Penn Alumni Travel event in Apulia. See the Library Guide for this bibliography here.

Keywords travel, alumni, penn, apulia, italy, reading, books

Disciplines Other Italian Language and Literature

Comments Griscom, R. (2013). Apulia: Undiscovered iitaly. In Penn Alumni Travel.

This other is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/alumni_reading/1

Alumni Travel Bibliography Apulia: Undiscovered Italy

Prepared by Penn Library Subject Specialist:

Richard Griscom Head of Music Library Italian Language and Literature [email protected]

Films and Books Related to the Trip Movies Set in Apulia:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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Books:

• Harrison, Chris. Head over Heel: Seduced by Southern Italy. Boston: Nicholas Brealey, 2010. 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.

• Götze, Heinz (1998), Castel del Monte: Geometric Marvel of the Middle Ages. Munich; New York: Prestel Publishing, 1998. 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.

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