About the first sentence, you also can say :" A me piace l'estate".
Mi = a me.
in Italian the personal object pronouns have two forms: the tonic form ( es me, te, lui, lei, noi ecc)
and the unstressed (atone) form ( es. mi, ti, lo , gli, la, le, ci ecc) .
If you use the unstressed form, you never have to use the prepositions