Books

Robert Harris: Pompeii

Exciting novel about the eruption, referencing the Piscina Mirabilis and other sites we visit.

Axel Munthe: The Story of San Michele

The autobiography of a Swedish physician who tended to Naples’ cholera victims and was rewarded with a site in Anacapri, where he built an extraordinary house among the ruins of Tiberius’s palace

Paolo Tullio: North of Naples, South of Rome

Memoir about relocating from Ireland to the area around Arpino, ancestral home of Cicero’s family. A charming insight into small town/country life in modern Italy.

DK (Dorling Kindersley) Guide to Rome

Comprehensive guidebook to Rome, breaking up the city into its different localities.

DVD

Pompeii: The New Dig 

3-part PBS documentary detailing the first excavations in Pompeii in over a generation. Episode #2 is particularly fascinating about possible survivors from Vesuvius’s eruption.