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 181
... church of the same name . Via de ' Fossi at its far end opens into the piazza over which the church presides . William Dean Howells , in Tuscan Cities , tells of coming to Flo- rence for the winter of 1882-83 with the notion of writing ...
... church of the same name . Via de ' Fossi at its far end opens into the piazza over which the church presides . William Dean Howells , in Tuscan Cities , tells of coming to Flo- rence for the winter of 1882-83 with the notion of writing ...
Page 182
... church of Santa Maria Novella - always , for James , the best of the Florentine churches - bearing in hand a copy , just acquired , of Ruskin's Mornings in Florence . He " looked about for a while at the beautiful church " -lingering ...
... church of Santa Maria Novella - always , for James , the best of the Florentine churches - bearing in hand a copy , just acquired , of Ruskin's Mornings in Florence . He " looked about for a while at the beautiful church " -lingering ...
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... church there is almost a continuous line of cafés , where the idle Vene- tians of the middle classes lounge , and ... church porch . And the im- ages of Christ and His angels look down upon it continually . Let us enter the church . It ...
... church there is almost a continuous line of cafés , where the idle Vene- tians of the middle classes lounge , and ... church porch . And the im- ages of Christ and His angels look down upon it continually . Let us enter the church . It ...
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HOMER BIGART | 3 |
HAROLD BRODKEY | 9 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING | 19 |
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