To prepare for a trip, many people buy destination guides to create their own roadmap and not miss the most beautiful things to see and do. Some travellers, however, prefer to read books set in the place they are going to visit, because the stories not only describe magnificent places, but also the emotions they arouse. If you belong to this category of travellers, then this list of 10 books set in Italy is just for you.

If Italy has become the destination of millions of travellers every year, some credit is also due to the Bard: William Shakespeare, in fact, fascinated the Anglo-Saxon world with stories set in the Italian peninsula, so much so that it was included in the destinations of the Grand Tour, the journey that young aristocrats undertook to perfect their knowledge.