A city with an illustrious literary history, Florence is represented here by excerpts from the works of native sons Dante, Boccaccio, and Cellini. The city's long tradition of attracting foreign visitors is celebrated by selections from Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad, E.M. Forster's A Room with a View, and Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence. Other contributors include Stendhal, George Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke, Henry James, Penelope Fitzgerald, D.H. Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, Cuzio Malaparte, and Iris Origo.