Italy in Mind: An AnthologyAlice Leccese Powers Comprising short stories, novel excerpts, essays, journal entries, letters, and poetry. Italy in Mind captures all the contradictions of the Italian scene: enduring tradition and trendy consumerism, ravishing landscapes and urban sprawl, demonic bureaucracy and unvanquishable human warmth. Each entry is accompanied by a biography of the author, and the entire collection is preceded by a lively introduction by editor Alice Leccese Powers. The result is a work of enchantment, a tribute both to Italy and to generations of literary travelers. |
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Page 49
... Roman sun says to the Romans ( a boy fishing the Tiber with a seine while two old men and a tourist watch from the bridge that leads to Castel Sant ' Angelo , where once a cypress forest mourned across the roof for a faded emperor gone ...
... Roman sun says to the Romans ( a boy fishing the Tiber with a seine while two old men and a tourist watch from the bridge that leads to Castel Sant ' Angelo , where once a cypress forest mourned across the roof for a faded emperor gone ...
Page 52
... Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities . In Rome to go out is to go home . There are no sidewalks in these sections . The walls rise from the cobbles as from lagoons , only people ...
... Roman street that he is in something and not outside of something as he would be in most cities . In Rome to go out is to go home . There are no sidewalks in these sections . The walls rise from the cobbles as from lagoons , only people ...
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... Roman Fever I From the table at which they had been lunching two American ladies of ripe but well - cared - for middle age moved across the lofty terrace of the Roman restaurant and , leaning on its para- pet , looked first at each ...
... Roman Fever I From the table at which they had been lunching two American ladies of ripe but well - cared - for middle age moved across the lofty terrace of the Roman restaurant and , leaning on its para- pet , looked first at each ...
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HOMER BIGART | 3 |
HAROLD BRODKEY | 9 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING | 19 |
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