Italy in Mind Author:Alice Leccese Powers (Editor) Comprised of short stories, novel excerpts, essays, poetry journals and letters, this work will delight anyone who loves Italy or great travel writing. Pieces include Barbara Grizzuti Harrison marveling at baroque Sicilian confections, Mary McCarthy celebrating Venice's threadbare dignity, and Henry James's Isabel Archer succumbing to th... more »e treacherous antiquities of Florence.
Cassino, once thriving, is turned into a scene of unrelieved grimness / Homer Bigart --
from Profane friendship / Harold Brodkey --
December in Florence / Joseph Brodsky --
Letter to Mrs. Ogilvy / Elizabeth Barrett Browning --
Up at a villa, down in the city / Robert Browning --
On Rome ; To the Hon. Douglas Kinnaird / George Gordon, Lord Bryon --
from The uncle from Rome / Joseph Caldwell --
Poems from Italy / John Ciardi --
Fountains / Eleanor Clark --
from Women of the shadows / Ann Cornelisen --
Genoa and its neighbourhood / Charles Dickens --
Erice / Lawrence Durrell --
Journals from Italy / George Eliot --
In Santa Croce with no Baedeker / E. M. Forster --
from The islands of Italy / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison --
from A farewell to arms / Ernest Hemingway --
from A bell for Adano / John Hersey --
The art of arrangement / Paul Hofmann --
from The portrait of a lady / Henry James --
To Sorgono / D.H. Lawrence --
Vespucci Territory : 1987 / R.W.B. Lewis --
The maid's shoes / Bernard Malamud --
The loot ; Venice preserved / Mary McCarthy --
Venice ; In a bye-canal ; In a church of Padua / Herman Melville --
On Italian time / Mary Morris --
from Summer's lease / John Mortimer --
The queen of the bogs / William Murray --
from The English patient / Michael Ondaatje --
Residenza / Tim Parks --
from The stones of Venice / John Ruskin --
Stanzas written in dejection, near Naples / Percy Bysshe Shelley --
from On Persephone's Island / Mary Taylor Simeti --
For women / Kate Simon --
from the Volcano lover / Susan Sontag --
San Sano / Matthew Spender --
Defying Mrs. Tweedie / Calvin Trillin --
The buried city of Pompeii / Mark Twain --
The city today / Gore Vidal --
Roman fever / Edith Wharton --
A baroque wall-fountain in the Villa Sciarra / Richard Wilbur --
41 different writers in 344 pages, so about 8 pages a story/exerpt. Authors include Edith Wharton, Gore Vidal, Calvin Trillin, Susan Sontag, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Michael Ondaatje, Lord Byron and Robert Browning.