Twilight in Italy
£8.99
Edition:Paperback978178076965319/05/2015From a Bookshelf nearby
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An exploration of the art, personalities and politics of Baroque Rome seen through the lens of Bernini's elephant carrying an obelisk. Lively, anecdotal and well illustrated.
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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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A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini recounts his early years to his psychoanalyst Dr S. With a cigarette clutched permanently between his fingers, he... read more
Zeno’s Conscience
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How an ancient Greek text on mathematics shaped 2000 years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.