Italian Impressions

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Geoffrey Fletcher's books on London, such as London Souvenirs and The London Nobody Knows, have long delighted Londoners and visitors to London alike. Now for tlje first time he has, in the role of artist and author, ventured outside his native shores and the impressions from his travels are deftly recorded in this sketchbook from the cities, villages and countryside of Italy, both of places widely loved and little known. , 'As I write,' he says, 'a hundred unrelated impressions come to the mind's eye. The dog and cat comfortably installed together in a barrel beneath a market stall in Genoa; a family gathering among great vats in a Neapolitan wine shop a scene that the Carracci or Caravaggio might have painted; a pale Italian beggar woman and her child on the steps of Rome station ; the solemnity of Venetian children at a marionette show; an old man and woman hedging and ditching in the Tuscan fields I remember seeing on a hillside near Tivoli a picture quite unchanged from... Tovább

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Geoffrey Fletcher's books on London, such as London Souvenirs and The London Nobody Knows, have long delighted Londoners and visitors to London alike. Now for tlje first time he has, in the role of artist and author, ventured outside his native shores and the impressions from his travels are deftly recorded in this sketchbook from the cities, villages and countryside of Italy, both of places widely loved and little known. , 'As I write,' he says, 'a hundred unrelated impressions come to the mind's eye. The dog and cat comfortably installed together in a barrel beneath a market stall in Genoa; a family gathering among great vats in a Neapolitan wine shop a scene that the Carracci or Caravaggio might have painted; a pale Italian beggar woman and her child on the steps of Rome station ; the solemnity of Venetian children at a marionette show; an old man and woman hedging and ditching in the Tuscan fields I remember seeing on a hillside near Tivoli a picture quite unchanged from the Tibur of Virgil or Horace . . . '
Geoffrey Fletcher's experiences have a warmth and humour that is very endearing and in this book the reader will find not only glimpses and impressions from the grander cities such as Venice, Florence, Naples, Genoa and Rome, but also of such colourful and engaging places as Baiae, Boccadasse, Lanuvio and Capri.
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