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Tables of Contents for Italy in Mind
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xv
HOMER BIGART
"Cassino, Once Thriving, Is Turned Into a Scene of Unrelieved Grimness" (CASSINO)
3
7
HAROLD BRODKEY
from Profane Friendship (VENICE)
10
5
JOSEPH BRODSKY
"December in Florence" (FLORENCE)
15
5
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Letter to Mrs. Ogilvy (NORTHERN ITALY)
20
5
ROBERT BROWNING
"Up at a Villa--Down in the City"
25
5
GEORGE GORDON
LORD BYRON
"On Rome" (ROME)
30
1
"To the Hon. Douglas Kinnaird" (VENICE)
31
2
JOSEPH CALDWELL
from The Uncle from Rome (NAPLES)
33
13
JOHN CIARDI
"Poems from Italy"
46
4
ELEANOR CLARK
"Fountains" (ROME)
50
10
ANN CORNELISEN
from Women of the Shadows (SICILY)
60
9
CHARLES DICKENS
"Genoa and Its Neighbourhood" (GENOA)
69
9
LAWRENCE DURRELL
"Erice" (SICILY)
78
14
GEORGE ELIOT
Journals from Italy (ROME, BOLOGNA, PADUA, VENICE)
92
7
E. M. FORSTER
"In Santa Croce with No Baedeker" (FLORENCE)
99
15
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON
from The Islands of Italy (SICILY)
114
9
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
from A Farewell to Arms (THE ITALIAN LAKES)
123
7
JOHN HERSEY
from A Bell for Adano (SICILY)
130
13
PAUL HOFMANN
"The Art of Arrangement"
143
10
HENRY JAMES
from The Portrait of a Lady (FLORENCE)
153
16
D. H. LAWRENCE
"To Sorgono" (SARDINIA)
169
8
R. W. B. LEWIS
"Vespucci Territory: 1987" (FLORENCE)
177
10
BERNARD MALAMUD
"The Maid's Shoes" (ROME)
187
15
MARY McCARTHY
"The Loot" (VENICE)
202
6
"Venice Preserved" (VENICE)
208
5
HERMAN MELVILLE
"Venice"
213
1
"In a Bye-Canal" (VENICE)
214
1
"In a Church of Padua" (PADUA)
215
1
MARY MORRIS
"On Italian Time"
216
4
JOHN MORTIMER
from Summer's Lease (TUSCANY)
220
17
WILLIAM MURRAY
"The Queen of the Bogs" (MILAN)
237
10
MICHAEL ONDAATJE
from The English Patient (TUSCANY)
247
6
TIM PARKS
"Residenza" (VERONA)
253
8
JOHN RUSKIN
from The Stones of Venice (VENICE)
261
6
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
"Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples" (NAPLES)
267
2
MARY TAYLOR SIMETI
from On Persephone's Island (SICILY)
269
11
KATE SIMON
"For Women"
280
6
SUSAN SONTAG
from The Volcano Lover (NAPLES)
286
6
MATTHEW SPENDER
"San Sano" (TUSCANY)
292
8
CALVIN TRILLIN
"Defying Mrs. Tweedie" (SICILY)
300
9
MARK TWAIN
"The Buried City of Pompeii" (NAPLES)
309
9
GORE VIDAL
"The City Today" (VENICE)
318
6
EDITH WHARTON
"Roman Fever" (ROME)
324
16
RICHARD WILBUR
"A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra" (ROME)
340
4
CHARLES WRIGHT
"Roma I" (ROME)
344