This book was in our summer catalogue but we include it (exceptionally) in the present one too because it is outstanding. As in her ‘Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire’ (2007), she brings a complex, remote subject triumphantly to life. Reading this will change the way you think about Italy, the Mediterranean, the Dark Ages, and much else (including, undoubtedly, our own era). The book is well produced, with generous reproductions of the astonishing mosaics.
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
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£30.00
Edition:Hardback978184614466027/08/2020From a Bookshelf nearby
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This slim volume came out in the autumn and has been picked up so swiftly each time it arrives in the shop that we've hardly been able to keep it in stock...
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Beautifully written and sensitive to his subject, this is a moving novel about Lampedusa, his remarkable wife Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee, and the writing of 'The Leopard'.
Lampedusa
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Piranesi drawings: visions of antiquity
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Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal
Hardback £16.99