Elements of Italy

A visitor's book for the peninsula – Turner, Goethe, Shelley, Hemingway, Truman Capote, Eric Newby, Keats, Cecil Beaton, Stendhal, Dickens – as well as locals' thoughts – Dante, Primo Levi, Leonardo da Vinci, Giovanni Verga, Italo Calvino – from one line to a couple of pages each and organised, inexplicably, according to the four classical elements of earth, water, fire and air.

Publisher: Virago. First English edition
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Review copy with publisher's embargo slip tipped in. A couple of pencil annotations in the margins, extremities evenly tanned, very good in dustwrapper


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