Manuel and Me: Looking for the Soul of America in the Heart of Italy

Manuel and Me: In Search of the Soul of America in the Heart of Italy is part-travel memoir, part-philosophical detective story—a soulful, often funny, and deeply human journey through Tuscany in search of what we once held sacred—memory, beauty, and moral clarity.

Spyridon, a Greek-American writer, jazz musician, and recovering Wall Street lawyer, arrives in Italy with two fluffy Pomeranians, a pile of books, and the ghost of a forgotten Greek scholar, Manuel Chrysoloras, by his side. As th...