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 55
... waiting , not conceiving or imagining , that goes on around it . All water has an aspect of holy water ; you feel it most strongly in these unfigured basins , not shooting up great rousing banners of liquid light as at Saint Peter's but ...
... waiting , not conceiving or imagining , that goes on around it . All water has an aspect of holy water ; you feel it most strongly in these unfigured basins , not shooting up great rousing banners of liquid light as at Saint Peter's but ...
Page 178
... waiting to get into the Uffizi stretched most mornings in snakelike fashion halfway across the Piazza Signoria ; but the depressing spectacle was caused in part by the Uffizi authorities , who instructed the ticket takers — as a ...
... waiting to get into the Uffizi stretched most mornings in snakelike fashion halfway across the Piazza Signoria ; but the depressing spectacle was caused in part by the Uffizi authorities , who instructed the ticket takers — as a ...
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... waiting . Eventually I acquired a tractor , but I was never any good at ploughing . The fresh bark of young olives would peel from the trunk as easily as pith off an orange whenever I passed near by . I would postpone the job and it ...
... waiting . Eventually I acquired a tractor , but I was never any good at ploughing . The fresh bark of young olives would peel from the trunk as easily as pith off an orange whenever I passed near by . I would postpone the job and it ...
Contents
HOMER BIGART | 3 |
HAROLD BRODKEY | 9 |
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING | 19 |
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