by David Leavitt · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa dura · ISBN 9780747558149
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«Florence, a Delicate Case» is David Leavitt's cultural history essay, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in hardback (192 pages, in English).
David Leavitt analyses the appeal Florence has exerted on Anglo-Saxon writers, artists and travellers, alternating past and present to trace the history of the foreign colony and evokes figures such as Tchaikovsky, E. M. Forster and Mary McCarthy.
The work is part of the series 'The Writer and the City'. First edition published in 2002.
For readers interested in the cultural history of Florence, travel literature and the Anglo-Saxon literary world of the twentieth century.
David Leavitt is an American novelist, short story writer, and biographer.
