Italy in Mind

Comprised of short stories, novel excerpts, essays, poetry journals and letters, this work will delight anyone who loves Italy or great travel writing. Pieces include Barbara Grizzuti Harrison marveling at baroque Sicilian confections, Mary McCarthy celebrating Venice's threadbare dignity, and Henry James's Isabel Archer succumbing to the treacherous antiquities of Florence.

Alice Leccese Powers is the editor of the anthologies Italy in Mind and Ireland in Mind and the co-editor of The Brooklyn Reader: Thirty Writers Celebrate America’s Favorite Borough. A freelance writer and editor, she has been published in the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, Newsday, and many other newspapers and magazines. Powers teaches writing at the Corcoran School of Art and Georgetown University. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and three daughters.

Introduction

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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

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