In her quest for the Sibyl in various locations in classical Italy, the author learns as much about casual sex and the concupiscence of the continental male as she does about the glory of antiquity. 'As a caculatedly outrageous guide to southern Italty, this book reads as though Casanova had let rip on a Baedeker guide...most unusual, often extremely funny, highly original and quite deranged at times' Financial Times 'Her attempts to write honextly and amusingly about voracious sexual appetite and about sexual harassment is esssentially honourable and gallant' Sunday Times