Here is an anthology of excerpts from prose and poetry written in or about Rome, prefaced by brief biographical and contextual notes. This guide is perfect for taking on vacation or as preparatory reading before a visit-or as entertainment for lovers of Rome and literature.
Here is an anthology of excerpts from prose and poetry written in or about Rome, prefaced by brief biographical and contextual notes. This guide is pe...
A pocket-sized monograph, with mini-map, on the history of the great prototype beach resort, and so well brought off I expected sand to sift from its pages while I was reading. The evocation of the Lido in winter is especially sharp, that sense of it being (even considering the development thereon) still the wild walk of Venice with the Adriatic storm wrack fetching up along its shoreline. Excellent, if often dodgy, company is kept throughout: Byron of course (and Byron quiet at that, soberly asking that his grave should, like one in the Certosa cemetery, merely implore peace); Diaghilev...
A pocket-sized monograph, with mini-map, on the history of the great prototype beach resort, and so well brought off I expected sand to sift from its ...
