Italian Villas in The English Patient and other Canadian Literary Works
When I was in grade eleven at St Michaels College School in Toronto, one of our…
Places
Seeing Sicily: A Circular Meditation on Light, Myth, and Memory
A long-held dream was finally coming to fruition, to follow the edge of Sicily, to trace…
Rome Beckons Me Back
The first time I visited Rome, I was nine years old. Throughout the year, my mother would…
What Italy Meant to Them: English Grand Tour Travelers and Charles Dickens
Upper-class Europeans and North Americans have always ranked Italy at the top of their…
To Market, To Market – the Mercato Experience in Italy
The Mercato is an Italian tradition that goes back centuries. Once a week, travelling…
Where Italy’s Most Famous Are Buried
Every year millions of tourists visit the city of Florence and flock to the Uffizi…
Dining With the Gods – A Travel Essay
After almost half a century living in Toronto’s Little Italy, I make a return journey…
Ottawa’s “Village”
Cars, trucks, and heavy transports bustle down the busy thoroughfare known as Preston…
Ottawa’s Little Italy Revives Street Art As It Revives Itself
Ottawa’s Preston Street developed its Italian-Canadian identity well before the 1950s,…
Calabria in Mind
Intellectuals, too, take vacations, and they generally don’t look askance to venues off…