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Zusatztext Rome Tales offers a scintillating range of writing. Informationen zum Autor Helen Constantine taught languages in schools until 2000, when she became a full-time translator. She has published two volumes of translated stories, Paris Tales and French Tales, and is currently editing a series of City Tales for Oxford University Press. She has translated Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier and Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos for Penguin. She is married to the writer David Constantine and with him edits the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation. ; Hugh Shankland lived several years in Rome before founding and heading the Italian department at Durham University, England. Klappentext In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors ranging from Boccaccio in the Middle Ages to contemporary new writers offer the delight of discovering and exploring one of the world's most unique cities thorough a wide variety of individual lives and epochs. Casanova sets about seducing the hotelier's daughter only minutes after his arrival, a notorious Spanish prostitute in Renaissance Rome endures a public hiding without flinching, a Danish tourist in her sixties finds an unusual lover, Pope John Paul II uncovers a vast conspiracy against him, a medieval revolutionary demagogue suffers almost the same fate as Mussolini. A deep sense of timelessness, of separate destinies entwined across a gulf of centuries, is the cumulative effect of this vivid mosaic of dramatic or comic or tragic stories set in the Eternal City. Zusammenfassung In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors including Boccaccio, Giacomo Casanova, and Pier-Paolo Pasolini offer the delight of exploring one of the world's most unique cities thorough a wide variety of individual lives and epochs. Essential reading for anyone who has been to Rome or dreams of going there. Inhaltsverzeichnis General Introduction Introduction Abraham the Jew Release The New Thérèse The Shirt on the Wall Cola Di Rienzo Freedom Blue Car Via Veneto Notes Lorette Ellerup Two Days to Christmas Isabella De Luna The Rubber Twins The Beautiful Hand The Girl with the Braid 16 October 1943 Samia Exmatriates Romulus and Remus The Small Hours The Sound of Woodworm Notes on the Authors Further Reading and Viewing Map Publisher's Acknowledgments ...
