Italian Journeys

with Isabella and Luigi  Dusi

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Isabella

 

Isabella’s interest in art, architecture and history matured during her twenty year career as an Interior Designer. Luigi brought her to live in Italy in 1994, in the hill top village of Montalcino, Tuscany. Since then, her passion to share her ever growing knowledge of the history and culture of Italy has strengthened and deepened.

 

Under Isabella’s leadership your Italian journey is enhanced by her natural gift, the ability to tell a story to bring Italy alive, helping you experience the culture, art and history; not lecturing at you, but through story telling. Isabella’s style is animated and passionate, as slowly she awakens your senses to Italy, always leaving you thinking and wanting to learn more.

 

Isabella’s “story-telling” includes:

 

Hannibal – the march on Rome

What is the Renaissance really all about?

Italy from Unification to WWII

The Sicilian Vespers

Palladio – Architectural Genius

The Longobards – who were they?

Is Venice Real?

The Rise of Rome

Garibaldi and the One Thousand

The Queen of Asolo

Etruscans – what we know and what we wish we knew?

Fascism under Mussolini

Julius Caesar – The First Emperor

Life in a medieval village in Tuscany

 

 

Isabella’s Art explanations
include the work of:

 

Luca Signorelli

Beato Angelico

Michelangelo

Piero della Francesca

Giotto, Cimabue and Masaccio

Gentile Fabriano

Sandro Botticelli

Ventura Salembini

Paolo Uccello

Pinturicchio

Simone Martini

 

 

Isabella is the author of two best selling books, published by Simon & Schuster, London.

click here to go to my "Books" page

 

Vanilla Beans & Brodo tells a fascinating story of the village and people of medieval Montalcino in the heart of Tuscany.

 

Bel Vino  tells you more about the people and village of Montalcino, but is not a sequel, it is the other side of the story, deepening your insight into the complexities of life in a medieval village which is, through the wine Brunello di Montalcino, internationally known and a destination in its own right.