Florence Stories

Herausgeber: Carr, Ella

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This stunning hardcover collection brings alive the magnificent Italian city of Florence through the eyes of literary greats from Dante to Salman Rushdie. In this gorgeously jacketed anthology of classic stories, an international array of brilliant writers provide windows onto the city's gilded past and full-blooded present. Florence's world-famous Renaissance is represented here by its most illustrious chroniclers, beginning with Dante's vision of an Inferno teeming with his Florentine enemies, Boccaccio's young Florentine nobles escaping the plague in The Decameron, and the artist Cellini's swashbuckling adventures. The city's long tradition of mesmerizing foreign visitors is celebrated in selections from Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad, E. M. Forster's A Room with a View, and the rapturous impressions of Stendhal (who gave his name to Stendhal syndrome). Mary McCarthy provides a vivid depiction of a twentieth-century market town; Penelope Fitzgerald weaves a gentle comedy of manners among Florence's fading aristocracy; Vasco Pratolini, one of the city's most renowned modern authors, tells a tender tale of class struggle under 1930s fascism; and Salman Rushdie dazzles with the magical realism of The Enchantress of Florence. George Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, and Iris Origo are among the other brilliant writers whose stories illuminate facets of this fascinating city.

Produktdetails

• Everyman's Library
• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 192mm x 129mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780593318577
• ISBN-10: 0593318579
• Artikelnr.: 60894726

Autorenporträt

Edited by Ella Carr

Inhaltsangabe

Preface DANTE ALIGHIERI
from The Divine Comedy GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
from the Decameron ANTONIO MANETTI
"The Fat Woodworker" BENEDETTO DEI
"The Prosperity of Florence" MARSILIO FICINO
from Letters FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI
"A Portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici" GIORGIO VASARI
from The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters
Sculptors and Architects BENVENUTO CELLINI
from The Autobiography of Benvenuto de Cellini TOBIAS SMOLLETT
from Travels Through France and Italy STENDHAL
from Rome
Naples and Florence GEORGE ELIOT
from Romola MARK TWAIN
from Travelogues HENRY JAMES
from The Diary of a Man of Fifty RAINER MARIA RILKE
from Diaries of a Young Poet E. M. FORSTER
from A Room with a View D. H. LAWRENCE
from Aaron's Rod D. H. LAWRENCE
"Fireworks in Florence" W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
"Up at the Villa" VASCO PRATOLINI
from Family Chronicle CURZIO MALAPARTE
from The Skin CURZIO MALAPARTE
from Those Cursed Tuscans MARY MCCARTHY
from The Stones of Florence IRIS ORIGO
"Childhood at Fiesole" PENELOPE FITZGERALD
from Innocence SALMAN RUSHDIE
from The Enchantress of Florence