The Villa Diana: Travels in Post-War Italy (Revival)
By Alan Moorehead.
Description
Originally written in 1951, a post-World War II journey through Italy Above Florence and the valley of the Arno stood the Villa Diana, in one of the oldest inhabited parts of Italy, at the end of an old Etruscan road that wound among olive groves and lines of cypresses. The home of Poliziano in the 15th century, it had been occupied by the troops of seven different armies during World War II but otherwise escaped damage, if one overlooked the looting of the grand piano. It was here that Alan Moorehead, known as one of the greatest correspondents of that war, moved in 1948 to trave...
ISBN(s)
1840246677, 9781840246674
