Title: Danza sull'abisso
First published: 2000
Description: Autobiographic account of the author's life, daughter of the daughter of an Italian diplomat and a white Russian nobleman, from her jet-set childhood and dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, from Paris, the Cote d'Azur and Florence to squallid poverty and the horrors of war.
People: M. Alexandroff Bassi (1925-)