Hosted by Michelle Johnston · 🇺🇸 US · EN-AU · 144 episodes
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A Writer in Italy is about travel, art and life. A place to share the travel journeys and the many discoveries along the way. Italy has many attractions - art, design, architecture, history and the wonderful food culture. Michelle shares her love of books on Italy and the places and regions that have inspired her along the way. Michelle started 'A Writer in Italy Podcast’ to share personal stories and the love of books on Italy that would lead to beautiful conversations with like minded souls who share a deep love affair with Italian Culture and the country as a place of beauty and spiritual renewal. Michelle Johnston lives in Australia with her family.
Michelle Johnston hosts A Writer In Italy - travel, books, art and life, a society show with 144 episodes published.
"But now my will and my desire were turned, as wheels that move in equilibrium, by love that moves the sun and other stars" - Dante Alighieri, Canto XXXIII "Welcome to Episode #146: Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comed
"There is only one way, and that is your way" - CG Jung Welcome to Episode #145: This share is all about reflecting on a recent milestone of seven years of podcasting and sharing stories and conversations about this Ital
“France had long been at the center of her philosophy. She had made France a touchstone in her writing, in which she alchemised life, love, and food in a literary genre of her own invention” - Luke Barr on MFK Fisher, Pr
"There is magic in cooking, and in cooking Italian food there is alchemy" - Old World Italian by Mimi Thorisson Since our lives contain multitudes, yes an American poet once said that, I feel to step away from the noise
"I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading: since, as you will agree, one book is merely a note to another book" - Virginia Woolf Today I share some beautiful moments while reading a few books on my table t
"A soul's journey through this uniquely itchy epoch requires a far more nourishing approach" - Sarah Wilson, This One Wild and Precious Life Sometimes you cannot see the forest for the trees, but that is the writers life
“The large paintings envelop the viewer and invite him or her in, it is an invitation to a self contained world where one can lose oneself and perhaps in the process find oneself. And for all their grandest of scale it i
"Fortunately for us art and travel lovers, science has caught up with what we have felt inside, what we have experienced" - Michelle Johnston In more recent years the science of ‘neuro-aesthetics’ has given us much to po
"Everything had been made honestly, quickly, without frills, but as it should be. It was wholesome, life giving...We had eaten well; we felt well. As we sat in the piazza inhaling our black half inches of double espressi
"Happiness is a byproduct ultimately of being in right relationship with your own soul” - James Hollis Welcome to Episode #137: There are places in Italy that are so beautiful they make you want to weep. When life occasi
"Italy, you win!" - J.J Martin, Mamma Milano Welcome to Episode #136: Today I share some inspiration from the book Mamma Milano by J.J Martin. J.J Martin is a visionary, creative and designer that lives in Milan. She mov
"In Milan, one feels at once the charm of a great city and the sweetness of Italian life" - Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Welcome to Episode #134: Today I share some fabulous things to do if you are on a budget or just a
"Italians strongly believe that being surrounded by beauty is beneficial to a happier life" - Riccardo Illy Welcome to Episode #135, Milan is a city of Art, Design, Architecture, Innovation and Commerce. It is full of gr
"All I wanted was time" - Tracey Emin, Strozzi Gallery Documentary Welcome to Episode #133 Today I share a travel story for International Women’s Day about a glorious art and life moment in Florence from 2025. There are
"The let them theory is about freedom" - Mel Robbins, Let Them Theory Welcome to Episode #132, I wanted to share this personal story of something that shifted in me in a great way to create an expansive and special exper
“The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing” - Heraclitus, The Cosmic Fragments Welcome to Episode #131
"Around the middle of the fifteenth century, not so long after the first written references in Europe to cards of any kind, an artist named Bonifacio Bembo painted a set of unnamed and unnumbered cards for the Visconti f
"A book can never disappoint you" - Cinzia Ferri Welcome to Episode #129: Just a little rumination about books and life as the new year arrives! Enjoy x The Substack Post that inspired this podcast: A book can never disa
“Bologna was unique in championing the professions of women. The home of Europe’s oldest university, which has supported female students since the thirteenth century, the city considered women artists integral to its dev
"Live the journey as faithfully as you can" 💥James Hollis Welcome to Episode #127: A notebook from Bologna led me to contemplate the profound effect that Italy has had on my psyche these past few years. The journeys and
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