Elements Of Italy

Lisa St. Aubin De Teran (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2002
Virago Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-86049-924-1 (ISBN)

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* Lisa St Aubin de Terán defines her love for Italy by collecting together pieces of work on Italy by writers as diverse as Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Edith Wharton, Turner, Shelley, Truman Capote, Mary McCarthy and Keats

The turnstile into Italy has clicked continually for centuries - Lord Byron loved here and continues to draw romantics in his wake, Stendhal concluded: 'The charm of Italy is akin to that of being in love'. Yet Italians love their country more than any foreigner ever can, it is a place where labourers do hum Verdi, quote Dante and find their lunch delicious. Italians love of art, architecture and life itself is what drew Lisa St Aubin to this beautiful country. She extracts the work of, among others, Dante, Edith Wharton, Leonardo da Vinci, Rosetta Loy, Mary McCarthy, Goethe, Primo Levi, Turner, Shelley, Claire Sterling, Truman Capote, Cecil Beaton, Elsa Morante, Molly Lefebure and Keats.
'Italy is mostly an emotion' - Henry James
'All the dreams of my youth I now behold realised before me' - Goethe
'They make love a great deal - and assassinate a little' - Byron

Lisa St Aubin de Terán was born in London in 1953. She has written five novels, poetry and short stories and three memoirs including the bestselling THE HACIENDA. She lives in Umbria, Italy.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.5.2002
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	126 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
ISBN-10	1-86049-924-4 / 1860499244
ISBN-13	978-1-86049-924-1 / 9781860499241
Zustand	Neuware