Italian Hours

Italian Hours is Henry James's richly textured portrait of Italy, a country he visited repeatedly over the course of his life and whose spirit he captured with rare subtlety. Published in 1909, the volume gathers together travel essays and impressions originally written for magazines between the 1870s and the early 20th century, then revised and arranged to form a kind of literary itinerary.
James leads the reader through the great cities—Venice, Florence, Rome, Milan, Naples—while also paus...