Letters From the Palazzo BarbaroSteerforth Press, 29 sty 2013 - 224 The novelist Henry James arrived in Venice as a tourist, and instantly fell in love with the city – particularly with the splendid Palazzo Barbaro, home of the expatriate American Curtis family. This selection of letters covers the period 1869-1907 and provides a unique record of the life and work of this great writer. Includes historical photographs and a foreword by Leon Edel, Henry James’s biographer. |
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... Grand Canal. A modest, thickwalled palace with two striking rows of Gothic windows, it was built in the fifteenth century and survived the turbulent years of the wars with the Turks and thefatal Venetian conquest of Lombardy. In ...
... Grand Canal. A modest, thickwalled palace with two striking rows of Gothic windows, it was built in the fifteenth century and survived the turbulent years of the wars with the Turks and thefatal Venetian conquest of Lombardy. In ...
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... beautiful preserved city,its GrandCanal, thebridgesandfootways, andthe ghosts that now exist only in old documents as Venice, onits treacherous sea, is translated into enduring literature. Early twentieth century view of the.
... beautiful preserved city,its GrandCanal, thebridgesandfootways, andthe ghosts that now exist only in old documents as Venice, onits treacherous sea, is translated into enduring literature. Early twentieth century view of the.
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Henry James. INTRODUCTION. BY ROSELLA MAMOLI ZORZI There is a palazzo, on the Grand Canal, quite close to the Accademia Bridge, which looks over the vast ribbonofthe GrandCanal whereit widens into the Bacino of St. Mark's. If you lean out ...
Henry James. INTRODUCTION. BY ROSELLA MAMOLI ZORZI There is a palazzo, on the Grand Canal, quite close to the Accademia Bridge, which looks over the vast ribbonofthe GrandCanal whereit widens into the Bacino of St. Mark's. If you lean out ...
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... Grand Canal litupby fireworks.Other painters, such as WalterGay, orRalph Latimer, offered other interpretations: Gay paintedthe ballroom, withits paintings,stucco work, sofas, chairs and tables, without anyhuman figure in it,as if the ...
... Grand Canal litupby fireworks.Other painters, such as WalterGay, orRalph Latimer, offered other interpretations: Gay paintedthe ballroom, withits paintings,stucco work, sofas, chairs and tables, without anyhuman figure in it,as if the ...
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... Grand Canal (1892),—wherethe name ofthepalace isnot given,outof respect for the Curtises' privacy—but where the Barbaro is clearly recognizable with its “painted chambers that still echo with one ofthe historic names”: “As youlive in ...
... Grand Canal (1892),—wherethe name ofthepalace isnot given,outof respect for the Curtises' privacy—but where the Barbaro is clearly recognizable with its “painted chambers that still echo with one ofthe historic names”: “As youlive in ...
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