Emancipated from Baedeker: Wharton and Hemingway in Italy

Surveys Wharton\u27s and Hemingway\u27s experiences in Italy and their subsequent writings. Discusses their shared passion for the country\u27s preserved history and culture and the appeal of their fiction and nonfiction to American readers, inspiring celebrity tourism in the case of Hemingway with travelers eager to retrace his and his characters\u27 footsteps through Europe. Also covers the authors\u27 fears of the rise of fascism for the country\u27s future after World War I. Discusses Wharton\u27s The Glimpses of the Moon (1922), Italian Villas and Their Gardens (1904), and Italian Backgrounds (1907) and Hemingway\u27s A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon, and Across the River and into the Trees