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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... things; hereJohn Addington Symonds, the historian of the Italian renaissance, a Victorian with a “secret life” and his friend Horatio Brown, frequently dined. And here Henry James, the American novelist of international moeurs ...
... things; hereJohn Addington Symonds, the historian of the Italian renaissance, a Victorian with a “secret life” and his friend Horatio Brown, frequently dined. And here Henry James, the American novelist of international moeurs ...
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... things. He, inturn, fell in with the idiosyncrasies of Daniel Curtis,with his twicetoldanecdotes, his exploitsasa gardener in acity thathaslittle land for gardening, andhis irascible criticisms of their mutualUnited States. James in ...
... things. He, inturn, fell in with the idiosyncrasies of Daniel Curtis,with his twicetoldanecdotes, his exploitsasa gardener in acity thathaslittle land for gardening, andhis irascible criticisms of their mutualUnited States. James in ...
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... thing outlived and lostand gone.”He finished TheAspern Papers in the Barbaro in1887; andduring another visit wrote ALondon Lifeat an oriental deskprobably plundered centuries before in the east. This volume now becomes a part of our ...
... thing outlived and lostand gone.”He finished TheAspern Papers in the Barbaro in1887; andduring another visit wrote ALondon Lifeat an oriental deskprobably plundered centuries before in the east. This volume now becomes a part of our ...
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... thing was to have an “effective” image, rendering the quintessence of Veniceinits “noble and fine aspect” ratherthan in its“shabbyand familiar” mode.James wanted Coburn tocatch and express that senseof history—and art—which Palazzo ...
... thing was to have an “effective” image, rendering the quintessence of Veniceinits “noble and fine aspect” ratherthan in its“shabbyand familiar” mode.James wanted Coburn tocatch and express that senseof history—and art—which Palazzo ...
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... thing. The other Tiepolos, the ovals in thegreat salon,The Offering toJuno Lucana, The BetrothalofAlexander and Roxana, The Death of Arsinoe, Tarquinius and Lucretia,were sold in1874 and are nowrespectively in Pavia, Copenhagen ...
... thing. The other Tiepolos, the ovals in thegreat salon,The Offering toJuno Lucana, The BetrothalofAlexander and Roxana, The Death of Arsinoe, Tarquinius and Lucretia,were sold in1874 and are nowrespectively in Pavia, Copenhagen ...
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