Note About the Book and the Author

More than a book itself, this is a dictionary, written in the years by a Cortonese full time resident, Lyndall Passerini.
This book will give you "facts". How many people, the history -also the recent one, Sports, Social facts, Political ect...
If you're interested in Italy for more than a mere trip over, this is the book you should read. 

Lyndall Passerini Hopkinson is the daughter of English Journalist Tom Hopkinson and writer Antonia White. She came over for a trip to Italy in 1952, with 50$ and no acknowledge of Italian Language. 
She has lived there ever since. Got married with and Italian Noble born, now lives in Cortona permanently. When she's not here, she's volunteering an association for refugees and asylum seekers in Cairo, Egypt. 

All profits from this book will go to help refugees in Cairo.

All the  books listed here are paperback, there is no hard back copy available.