O'Faolain, Sean — A Summer in Italy

NY, Devin-Adair Company, 1950. Hardcover. Blue cloth. Rose illustrated dust jacket. 248 pp. 8 bw plates. Sean O'Faolain, noted Irish novelist, short story writer, and social historican, spent the summer of 1948 in Italy. Contents include: Entry -- Turin -- Santa Christina and a bookstall -- Venus and the virgin -- Italian miracles -- Eleonora Mavourneen -- Eden's apple -- The Riviera -- Genoa one -- Genoa two -- Nepenthe -- Dan O'Connell -- San Rocco -- Mazzini -- Quarto dei mille -- Nervi -- Sori -- Behind the Riviera -- Camogli -- Black magic -- San Fruttuoso -- To Spezia -- Rebecca -- Florence -- The quattrocento sun -- Cities are not museums -- Past and present -- "That horrible tower of Giotto" -- Florentine humor -- The Piazza della Republica -- Dante and Joyce -- Siena -- The Palio -- A wine-fair -- Rome -- My map of Rome -- Ghosts -- The 'real' Rome -- Death and resurrection -- Santa Maria del Popolo -- A mesmeric city -- The Carcer Mamertinus -- Where is Saint Peter? -- The evidence -- The excavations -- Much too much past -- My friend Cipolla -- Venice -- On going Corvo -- Venetian water -- Dissolving antinomies -- Mornings in Venice -- The gondola -- A lavish city -- Torcello -- The first Venice -- Santa Maria Assunta -- Night on the lagoons -- Talk of the devil -- Verona -- A small-scale Florence -- Art and reality -- Fair-day -- Is the bridge down? -- Art and the populace -- Vale!. VG-/ Good (sunning to dj spine and edges of cloth. dj quite worn at corners and edges with some small tears at top. pages unmarked, binding tight) .