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Rome Tales (Paperback)
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Rome Tales (Paperback)
Series: City Tales
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List price R385
Loot Price R350
Discovery Miles 3 500
You Save R35 (9%)
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In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by
Italian authors ranging from Boccaccio in the Middle Ages to
Giacomo Casanova in the eighteenth century, to Pier-Paolo Pasolini
in the twentieth and contemporary new writers such as Melania
Mazzucco and Igiaba Scego, offer the delight of discovering and
exploring one of the world's most unique cities thorough a wide
variety of individual lives and epochs. The tales span seven
hundred years but rather than being ordered chronologically, old
and new appear alongside one another, reflecting the dual identity
of Rome - thriving, modern metropolis and ancient city centre that
is one of the wonders of the world. The tales are wonderfully
varied in style, tone, and subject matter. Casanova sets about
seducing the hotelier's daughter only minutes after his arrival, a
notorious Spanish prostitute in Renaissance Rome endures a public
hiding without flinching, a Danish tourist in her sixties finds an
unusual lover, Pope John Paul II uncovers a vast conspiracy against
him, a medieval revolutionary demagogue suffers almost the same
fate as Mussolini. Each story is illustrated with a black-and-white
photograph and there is a map of Rome to help readers locate the
important sites which feature in the text. A deep sense of
timelessness, of separate destinies entwined across a gulf of
centuries, is the cumulative effect of this vivid mosaic of
dramatic, comic, and tragic stories set in the Eternal City.
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