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Tuscany in mind : an anthology / edited and with an introduction by Alice Leccese Powers.
- Title
- Tuscany in mind : an anthology / edited and with an introduction by Alice Leccese Powers.
- Publication
- New York : Vintage Books, 2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Powers, Alice Leccese.
- Description
- xxvi, 371 p. : ill., port.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- In her fourth literary travel companion, Alice Leccese Powers explores one of the most seductive regions of the world through more than two centuries of fiction, poetry, essays, letters, and memoirs by English-speaking visitors to northern Italy. The poet Shelley called Tuscany a paradise of exiles; it has long been a magnet for literary travelers and expatriates. Here are writers who have made their home in Tuscan villas, castles, and farmhouses, from the Shelleys, Byron, and the Brownings to Frances Mayes. Here too are Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Henry James, and E. M. Forster on the glories of Florence, Pisa's leaning tower, and the enchanting Tuscan countryside, alongside the tart wit of Mark Twain, Mary McCarthy, and Erica Jong. From James Boswell's record of his romantic dalliances to Laura Fraser's memoir An Italian Affair to Sarah Dunant's novel The Birth of Venus, Tuscany in Mind assembles a glittering mosaic portrait of an unforgettable place.
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- Vintage departures
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- Vintage departures
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- Literary collections
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Excerpt from A Tuscan childhood / Kinta Beevor -- Excerpt from Boswell on the Grand Tour / James Boswell -- Bianca among the nightingales / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Old pictures in Florence / Robert Browning -- Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Excerpt from Anatomy of restlessness / Bruce Chatwin -- Excerpt from Any four women could rob the Bank of Italy / Ann Cornelisen -- Excerpt from Pictures from Italy / Charles Dickens -- Excerpt from The birth of Venus / Sarah Dunant -- Canti Toscani / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Excerpt from Innocence / Penelope Fitzgerald -- Excerpt from Where angels fear to tread / E. M. Forster -- Excerpt from An Italian affair / Laura Fraser -- Excerpt from A garden in Lucca / Paul Gervais -- Excerpt from Italian days / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -- Excerpt from The sixteen pleasures / Robert Hellenga -- Excerpt from Indian summer / William Dean Howells -- Excerpt from Confidence / Henry James -- Ritratto / Erica Jong -- Excerpt from Etruscan places / D. H. Lawrence -- Excerpt from In Maremma / David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell -- Florence / Robert Lowell -- Excerpt from Under the Tuscan sun / Frances Mayes -- Excerpt from The stones of Florence / Mary McCarthy -- Excerpt from A traveller in Italy / H. V. Morton -- Excerpt from A small place in Italy / Eric Newby -- Excerpt from Images and shadows / Iris Origo -- Tuscan cypresses / John Ormond -- Excerpt from The Tuscan year / Elizabeth Romer -- Excerpt from Mornings in Florence / John Ruskin -- Excerpt from Travel writing / Mary Shelley -- Excerpt from The letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Excerpt from Italy: the places in between / Kate Simon -- Excerpt from Travels through France and Italy / Tobias Smollett -- Excerpt from Within Tuscany / Matthew Spender -- Grandparents / Stephen Spender -- Excerpt from The innocents abroad / Mark Twain -- Excerpt from The custom of the country / Edith Wharton.
- ISBN
- 1400076757 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2004061155
- OCLC
- 57001869
- SCSB-10663576
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library