Books By Dario Castagno

New York Times’ Best Selling Author

“Celloastagno’s perspective may be less romantic than that of Americans who flock to Italy in search of a unique cultural experience, but his emotional connection to his homeland and countrymen is authentic and beautiful.”

USA Today

“Most refreshingly, his book doesn’t pretend to be anything other than what it is; a light-hearted, engaging jaunt into the Italian countryside, unfiltered by an outsider’s prejudice and romanticism.”

New York Times

“Ever the gentleman, Castagno plays the gracious host with great humor and abundant humility…”

Chicago Tribune

“(Dario) is a good-natured anecdotalist who writes at an ambling pace”

San Francisco Chronicle

“His work generates much of its humor from the clash of cultures, told from the Italian perspective at the gentle expense of Americans”

The Library Journal

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Brunello for Breakfast

Dario’s latest book! In this sequel, the newly graduated Dario fulfills the remainder of his duty as an actual firefighter in his home city of Siena.

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Too Much Tuscan Sun

The bulk of the book is devoted, with humor and affection, to the Americans Dario has met – the vain, the silly, the ignorant, the ambitious, the horny, the condescending, the charming, and the outright pathological. Some of them have made his life hell and live in his nightmares; others became lifelong friends.

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A Day In Tuscany

A charming, heartfelt, and often humorous insider’s view of the Tuscan people, culture, and landscape.

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Too Much Tuscan Wine

Dario decants another spellbinding volume about life in a place where the everyday can still be infused with magic and marvel.

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An Osteria in Chianti

“Ultimo is Chianti.” The truth of these words-and the century-long existence of Ultimo Gori is the essence of Dario Castagno’s fourth book.

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District 9 Of Chianti

A coffee table book beautifully showing a local, if vanishing, tradition and to document the attendant virtues of my beloved hills in Chianti District Nine.

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The Miracle of Belpoggio

For his second novel, Dario Castagno returns to the enchanted landscape of An Osteria In Chianti (and of his celebrated memoirs): the fabled Tuscan countryside.

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The Bromide in the Soup

The Bromide In the Soup alternates between an autobiographical account of his his obligatory service in the Roman firefighting academy during his teens, and vividly imagined histories of the various young men who trained alongside him.

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