Florence stories /
Carr, Ella,editor.
"An anthology of stories set in Florence by a wide range of great writers, from Dante to Salman Rushdie"--
From the Divine comedy / Dante Alighieri -- From the Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio -- The fat woodworker / Antonio Manetti -- The prosperity of Florence / Benedetto Dei -- Letters / Marsilio Ficino -- A portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici / Francesco Guicciardini -- From The lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects / Giorgio Vasari -- From The autobiography of Benvenuto de Cellini / Benvenuto Cellini -- From the travels through France and Italy / Tobias Smollett -- From Rome, Naples and Florence / Stendhal -- From Romola / George Eliot -- Travelogues / Mark Twain -- From The diary of a man of fifty / Henry James -- From Diaries of a young poet / Rainer Maria Rilke -- From A room with a view / E.M. Forster -- From Aaron's rod / D.H. Lawrence -- Fireworks in Florence / D.H. Lawrence -- Up at the villa / W. Somerset Maugham -- From Family chronicle / Vasco Pratolini -- From The skin / Curzio Malaparte -- From Those cursed Tuscans / Curzio Malaparte -- From The stones of Florence / Mary McCarthy -- Childhood at Fiesole / Iris Origo -- From Innocence / Penelope Fitzgerald -- From The enchantress of Florence / Salman Rushdie.
"An anthology of stories set in Florence by a wide range of great writers, from Dante to Salman Rushdie"--