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248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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Entry -- Turin -- Santa Christina and a bookstall -- Venus and the virgin -- Italian miracles -- Eleonora Mavourneen -- Eden's apple -- Riviera -- Genoa one -- Genoa two -- Nepenthe -- Dan O'Connell -- San Rocco -- Mazzini -- Quarto dei mille -- Nervi -- Sori -- Behind the Riviera -- Camogli -- Black magic -- San Fruttuoso -- To Spezia -- Rebecca -- Florence -- Quattrocento sun -- Cities are not museums -- Past and present -- "That horrible tower of Giotto" -- Florentine humor -- Piazza della Republica -- Dante and Joyce -- Siena -- Palio -- A wine-fair -- Rome -- My map of Rome -- Ghosts -- The 'real' Rome -- Death and resurrection -- Santa Maria del Popolo -- A mesmeric city -- Carcer Mamertinus -- Where is Saint Peter? -- Evidence -- Excavations -- Much too much past -- My friend Cipolla -- Venice -- On going Corvo -- Venetian water -- Dissolving antinomies -- Mornings in Venice -- Gondola -- A lavish city -- Torcello -- First Venice -- Santa Maria Assunta -- Night on the lagoons -- Talk of the devil -- Verona -- A small-scale Florence -- Art and reality -- Fair-day -- Is the bridge down? -- Art and the populace -- Vale! |
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Italy -- Description and travel.
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Italy. |
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