num_pages: 232
description: In this collection of the eminent writer's most important essays, her illuminating critical intelligence ranges from the Rome of "Historia Augusta" through the sixteenth century to the moderns Selma Lagerlof, Constantin Cavafy and Thomas Mann
language: English
title: The Dark Brain of Piranesi and Other Essays
titlecomplete: The Dark Brain of Piranesi and Other Essays
genres: History, Criticism, Architecture, Essays, Philosophy, France, French Literature, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 147
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux