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With its genius for art and culture, there is no country in the world as wonderfully civilized (and civilizing) as Italy. But seething below this surface is a long and shadowy history of corruption, cruelty, and the generally bizarre. For centuries it has been overrun by waves of invaders, all... read more
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- Byron: Add a description of this character.
- Michelangelo
- Boswell
- Bernini
- Pazzi
- Napoleon
- Borromini
- Mussolini
- Hester Piozzi
- Norma
- Visconti
- Dumas
- Cellini
- Lucrezia Borgia
- D'annunzio
- Charles Dickens
- Scrovegni
- Vasari
- Giovanni
- Giotto
- Arno
- Nelson
- Ferrara
- Wilhelmine Buchholz
- Foscari
- Virgil
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THE WORDS Napoli, binario due, crackle and sputter out of the loudspeaker, barely comprehensible over the swell of voices on the crowded platform.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Barbara Hodgson (Author)
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- Dewey: 914.50493
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- Books › Travel › Reference & Tips › Essays & Travelogues
- Books › Travel › Reference & Tips › Guidebooks
- Books › Travel › Europe › Italy
- Books › History › Europe › Italy
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