Living, Studying, and Working in Italy: Everything You Need to Know to Live La Dolce Vita

So, you want to move to Italy for six months but you don't speak the language well. How do you look for a job? Your heart is set on buying a farmhouse in Tuscany. What are the legal pitfalls to avoid? You'd like to study in Rome, but your college doesn't have a program. Which schools should you apply to?

With all-new information on the Internet and on the effect of the conversion to the euro, this essential companion guide to Italy features

- hundreds of addresses and Internet sites, from real estate

agencies to job banks

- details on visas, banking, taxes, and residency permits

- freelance, seasonal, part-time, and full-time employment

options

- more than two hundred language schools, American colleges,

and Italian universities

Written by two seasoned expatriates, Living, Studying, and Working in Italy is packed with candid insider's tips and practical, up-to-date information for travelers of any age.

Monica Larner has lived in Rome and Milan on and off for ten years and is now writing a guide to Italy's most romantic hideaways. She was a foreign correspondent with Business Week, Italy Daily, and the International Herald Tribune.Travis Neighbor Ward is a freelance writer based in Atlanta. Following four years in Florence, Italy, she was a senior editor for Departures magazine and the U.S. bureau manager of L'Espresso magazine in New York.