Tuscan Cities Travels through the Heart of Old Italy (9781848855502) William Dean Howells, Matthew Stevenson
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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks; Reprint edition (November 22, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1848855508
ISBN-13: 978-1848855502
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7.7 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
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For William Dean Howells, American Consul to Venice for four years, Italy was the country that fashioned his prose and fostered his love of travel hydrology engineering books free download pdf. One winter, he travelled the length and breadth of Tuscany, from Florence and Fiesole to Siena, Pisa, Lucca, Pistoia, and Prato hydrology engineering books free download pdf. Immersing himself in all things Tuscan, he describes in compelling detail the daily life — funerals and weddings, military marches and lovers' trysts — of a place that was bursting with life and endlessly fascinating to him hydrology engineering books free download pdf. He muses on the character of the Italians that he meets, revelling in their sense of drama, their sentimentality and impulsiveness, and vividly resurrects the artistic, tempestuous, world-changing history of Tuscany, from its mysterious, ancient beginnings to the birth of the Renaissance and its status as cultural soul of Italy hydrology engineering books free download pdf. Tuscan Cities, a passionate Italophile's glowing tribute, cannot fail to inspire anyone who has ever travelled to or loved Tuscany as Howells did.
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