2012年7月29日 星期日

Elements of Italy 意大利之土水火風

 




意大利之魅 Elements of Italy




Elements of Italy
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ISBN:
9781860498268
ISBN-10:
1-860-49826-4
Virago
A Virago title
The turnstile into Italy has clicked continually for centuries - Lord Byron loved here and continues to draw romantics in his wake, Stendhal concluded: ‘The charm of Italy is akin to that of being in love’. Yet Italians love their country more than any foreigner ever can, it is a place where labourers do hum Verdi, quote Dante and find their lunch delicious. Italians love of art, architecture and life itself is what drew Lisa St Aubin to this beautiful country. She extracts the work of, among others, Dante, Edith Wharton, Leonardo da Vinci, Rosetta Loy, Mary McCarthy, Goethe, Primo Levi, Turner, Shelley, Claire Sterling, Truman Capote, Cecil Beaton, Elsa Morante, Molly Lefebure and Keats.
'Italy is mostly an emotion' - Henry James
'All the dreams of my youth I now behold realised before me' - Goethe
'They make love a great deal - and assassinate a little' - Byron

Reviews

On SOUTHPAW:
  • ‘The collection contains some of St Aubin de Terán’s most satisfying work to date … An absorbing storyteller, St Aubin finds other people’s life stories even more enchanted than her own’ INDEPENDENT
  • ‘A jubilant sense of place pervades the stories, together with the smell of woodsmoke, acacia blossom and the day’s baking’ SUNDAY TRIBUNE

內容簡介

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幾百年來,意大利以其魔力迷倒眾生。拜倫為了追求愛情,從威尼斯趕往拉文那;濟慈在生命最後日子來到羅馬,死在西班牙階梯旁;司湯達總結說,“意大利的魅力與戀愛中的魅力”……

本 書匯集了近三百年來不斷從意大利獲得了靈感的作家、詩人、學者如但丁、達‧芬奇、狄更斯、歌德、雪萊、濟慈、王爾德所寫的關于意大利的文字——小說、游 記、書信、回憶錄等,在土、水、火、空氣四種元素的標題下編排成章,既道出編者這位在意大利“生活和愛了大半輩子”的人對意大利的獨特理解,又深刻且別有 新意地揭示了這個浪漫迷人國度的神韻和精髓。

莉薩‧聖‧奧賓‧迪‧特蘭,英國暢銷書作家,1953年生于倫敦,現居意大利翁布里亞。她的第-部小說《管家》獲薩默塞特‧毛姆獎,第二部小說《去米蘭的慢車》獲約翰‧盧威連‧萊斯獎。此外她還創作詩歌、短篇小說等,其中包括《意大利之谷》和《大莊園》。

目錄


前言


米蘭
熱那亞
佛羅倫薩
錫耶納
羅馬
那不勒斯
艾米利亞-羅曼涅
博洛尼亞
拉文納
威尼斯
西西里
一次感傷的旅行
意大利食品
塞加拉番琪亞
收獲葡萄
基督駐足埃博利
月亮與篝火
J.M.W.透納
意大利之旅


水位線
華屋
歷史
家庭
談威尼斯婦女
街上全是水
馬拉沃里亞一家
意大利當代史
亞平寧山間的戀愛與戰爭
如果不是現在,那是什麼時候?
恿大利之旅
意大利時光
新意大利人
拜倫勛爵尺牘
羅馬徜徉錄
向歐洲,1948年
伊斯基亞,1949年


《萊奧納多‧達‧芬奇筆記》節錄
《沒有女人的男人》節錄
聖米凱萊的故事
加里波第的羅馬共和國保衛戰
黑手黨
西西里的一場悲劇
卡爾維諾所作的挽歌
家庭問題
層層地獄
入侵西西里
那不勒斯
談馬基雅維利的《君主論》
殘酷與哀矜;被愛是否比被怕好,還是相反


空氣
風‧雲‧星空‧音樂
嘉布遣教堂……奧古斯塔斯
夏季時疫
《萊奧納多‧達‧芬奇筆記》節錄
天使中的濟慈
圓拱門——密涅瓦廣場
羅馬

 




Elements of Italy

Title Elements of Italy
Author St Aubin de Terán, Lisa, 1953-
Publication Virago, 2002
ISBN 1860499244
Subject Italy - description and travel
Dewey Class Number 914.5
Category TRA:Eur
Physical Description 277p..20 cm
Edition New pbk. ed.
Summary note Lisa St Aubin de Teran delves into her love for Italy by exploring the work of Italians Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Primo Levi and non-Italians Goethe, Turner, Shelley, Truman Capote, Cecil Beaton and Keats.
Description Lisa St Aubin conveys the essence of what Italy is by dividing it into the four classical elements of earth, fire, air and water - what it looks, smells, sounds and tastes like. The turnstile into Italy has clicked continually for centuries - Lord Byron loved here and continues to draw romantics in his wake; Stendhal concluded, "The charm of Italy is akin to that of being in love"; Vita Sackville-West grew drunk on her rapture for the country; and Heinrich Heine noted "simply letting yourself live is beautiful in Italy". And yet Italians love their country more than any foreigner ever can.;Italians love of art, architecture and life itself is what drew Lisa St Aubin to the country. She explores the work of Italians Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Goethe, Primo Levi and non-Italians Turner, Shelley, Truman Capote, Cecil Beaton and Keats - who went to Rome to die by the Spanish Steps. She also explores the constitutional impact of the 28 governments since 1945 and the historical implications.

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