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A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary 1939-1940 by Iris Origo
$23.00 NZD
Category: History
A harrowing account of life in Italy in the year leading up to World War II, available in the US for the first time. In 1939 it was not a foregone conclusion that Mussolini would enter World War II on the side of Hitler. In this previously unpublished and only recently discovered diary, Iris Origo, ...Show more
A Study in Solitude by Iris Origo
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Giacomo Leopardi is widely considered the greatest Italian poet since Dante. Writer, philosopher, essayist and philologist, he was one of the most radical and challenging thinkers of the 19th century. An engaging, highly readable biographer, Origo brings us Leopardi the poet, but also Leopardi the ninet ...Show more
Images and Shadows: Part of a Life by Iris Origo
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Bring her up somewhere where she does not belong...I'd like her to be a little 'foreign' Iris Origo was born in 1902 and spent her youth in the ancestral estate on Long Island and in her grandfather's castle in Ireland. Her father died tragically when she was eight, and she continued her peripatetic lif ...Show more
The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli by Iris Origo
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Teresa Guiccioli was 19 years old and married to a jealous and violent husband when she became Byron's mistress in 1819. Incorporating 116 letters from Byron to Teresa, and some of her answers to him, Iris Origo's fascinating account of Byron's Italian years not only follows the lovers' five-year affair ...Show more
The Merchant of Prato : Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City by Iris Origo
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1870 an astonishing cache, containing some 150,000 letters and great numbers of business documents, came to light. Iris Origo drew on this material to paint, in detail, a picture of Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance. Francesco di Marco Datini, the 14th-century Tuscan merchant who fo ...Show more
War In Val D'orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944 by Iris Origo
$24.34 NZD
Category: History
War in Val D'Orcia is the elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce, a manor in a Tuscan no-man's land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil war. Writing with simplicity and grace, Iris Origo describes how she and her husband managed to help refugee children from Genoa and Turin, hide escape ...Show more
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