[PDF] North Of Naples South Of Rome eBook

Author : Paolo Tullio
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 1999-09-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780312243173

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Since childhood, Paolo Tullio has returned each year to his hometown of Gallinaro, to the labyrinthine nest of his relations and to the passionate people of his valley. North of Naples, South of Rome describes a hysterically chaotic wine competition, samples the Italian cantina, instructs on marketplace haggling, and investigates the charms and scams of Naples. It looks with disbelief at a tortuous bureaucracy, observes the role of the church in daily life, and explains how to win a local election and how to roast a pig. With fascinating detours on local buildings, history, folklore, and fashion, the reader tours a carousel of picnics, feasts, and fireworks, led by the delightful pen and ink drawings of Tullio's wife, renowned watercolorist Susan Morley. This warmhearted tour of a charming, intimate world is as enticing and original as A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun.

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Picador
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466800488

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Long out of print, Shirley Hazzard's classic novel of love and memory A young Englishwoman working in Naples, Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone in the fabulously ruined city, she idly follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance and thus changes her life forever. Through the letter, she meets Giocanda, a beautiful and gifted writer, and Gianni, a famous Roman film director and Giocanda's lover. At work she encounters Justin, a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds mysteriously attractive. As she becomes increasingly involved in the lives of these three, she discovers that the past--and the patterns of a lifetime--are not easily discarded.

Author : Tommaso Astarita
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2006-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393254321

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"Lucid, evocative, and richly detailed." —Jay Parini The history of southern Italy is entirely distinct from that of northern Italy, yet it has never been given its own due. In this authoritative and wholly engrossing history, distinguished scholar Tommaso Astarita "does a masterful job of correcting this error" (Mark Knoblauch, Booklist). From the Normans and Angevins, through Spanish and Bourbon rule, to the unification of Italy in 1860, Astarita rescues Sicily and the worlds south of Rome from the dustier folds of history and restores them to sparkling life. We are introduced to the colorful religious observances, the vibrant historical figures, the diverse population, the ancient ruins, beautiful landscapes, sweet music, and magnificent art—all of which inspired visitors to claim that one had to "see Naples, and then die."

Author : Joseph Luzzi
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374298696

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A child of Italian immigrants and scholar of Italian literature paints an intimate portrait that blends together history and the unusual to show how his 'two Italies' join and clash in unexpected ways.

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Publisher : DK Eyewitness Travel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Amalfi Coast (Italy)
ISBN : 9781465427069

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Col. ill. and maps on inside covers, and detachable col. map of Naples affixed to flap of p. [3] of cover.

Author : Pino Aprile
Publisher : Via Folios
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781599540313

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In a passionate and polemical manner, Pino Aprile's "Terroni" examines the effect that the unification of Italy has had on Southern Italy and analyzes what some of the ramifications are today. A bestseller in Italy, the book sold more than 200,000 copies in its first year of print.