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 136
... everything that happened in the room . Over the Saint of the Telephone there was a photograph of Princess Marie José of Belgium , Umberto's wife , dressed as a Red Cross nurse . Above the bookcase there was a great dustless square where ...
... everything that happened in the room . Over the Saint of the Telephone there was a photograph of Princess Marie José of Belgium , Umberto's wife , dressed as a Red Cross nurse . Above the bookcase there was a great dustless square where ...
Page 209
... Everything has been catalogued , with a pride that is more in the knowledge than in the thing itself . " A fake , " genially says a gentleman , pointing to his Tintoretto . “ Réjane's , ” says a house owner , pointing to the broken ...
... Everything has been catalogued , with a pride that is more in the knowledge than in the thing itself . " A fake , " genially says a gentleman , pointing to his Tintoretto . “ Réjane's , ” says a house owner , pointing to the broken ...
Page 297
... everything : they only lack the power of speech , " a remark I found beautiful at the time , as subtle as love , but which I have since discovered was a ritual reply centuries old . Vittorio and I planted a walnut together in the back ...
... everything : they only lack the power of speech , " a remark I found beautiful at the time , as subtle as love , but which I have since discovered was a ritual reply centuries old . Vittorio and I planted a walnut together in the back ...
Contents
HOMER BIGART | 3 |
HAROLD BRODKEY | 9 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING | 19 |
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