What to read after Alone with Michelangelo?

Someone once said that travel is the exploration of love; in 1962, Marlene Hill fell in love with Italy. On a brief trip to this timeless land, an over-whelming sense of belonging came over her. When her feet first touched the streets of Rome, the truth of Marlene's restricted life back home struck her with a wallop. The meaning of the phrase, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do," became visceral as soon as she took off her panty girdle and walked unrestrained as the Roman women were doing. It was as if Marlene had come home, home to the passionate love of life she had always suspected was possible. She didn't want to leave, but life intervened. Not until 1990 was she able to go back alone to reconnect with those feelings. Marlene learned how to travel as Europeans do. On subsequent visits, she attended language schools and lived in apartments pretending that she truly belonged. This book is about that first solo journey, yet it includes discoveries and personal insights made on other trips. Going it alone with no family or social connections, and winging it with a minimum command of the language wasn't easy, but in so doing, she discovered hidden strengths. Marlene learned more about the ancient Etruscans' art -- those pre-Roman dwellers of Tuscany -- as well as the art and architecture of Michelangelo's time.