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First edition. |
| Description |
x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
The Other Side of the Tiber illuminates Italy in an entirely new way, treating the peninsula as a series of distinct places, subjects, histories, and geographies loosely bound together by shared priorities and limits. A subtle and solid image of Italy emerges as does a multi-faceted portrait of the author. Earthquakes and volcanoes; a hundred-year-old man; Siena as a walled city; Keats in Rome; the refugee camp of Manduria; the Slow Food movement realism in Caravaggio; the concept of good and evil; Mary the Madonna as a subject--from these varied angles, Wilde-Menozzi traces a society skeptical about competition and tolerant of contradiction, and suggests the benefits of its long view of time and belief in beauty. |
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Italy -- Social life and customs.
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Italy -- Description and travel.
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Wilde-Menozzi, Wallis -- Travel -- Italy.
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Wilde-Menozzi, Wallis -- Homes and haunts -- Italy.
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| ISBN |
9780374280710 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0374280711 hardcover alkaline paper |
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