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Linda Lappin
This extraordinary creative writing textbook teaches writers to discover stories, imagery, and inspiration in the soul of places they love and access an inexhaustible source of creative power. Exercises drawn…
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A literary gothic tale of the tantalizing love story between American heroine Harriet Sacket and the enigmatic Count Federigo, self-proclaimed Etruscan spirit, in Tuscany, 1922.
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In her new novel, Lappin explores the final years in the life of short-story writer and literary figure, Katherine Mansfield, focusing on her relationships with Ida Baker and John Middleton…
A storyset in 1920s Italy in the area once occupied by The Etruscans.
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Amedeo Modigliani, embittered and unrecognized genius, dies of meningitis on a cold January day in Montparnasse in 1920. Jeanne Hebuterne, his young wife and muse, follows 48 hours later, falling…
Four unlikely misfits seeking inspiration in the sculpture garden of Bomarzo with its freaks and monsters. Not everyone will make it out alive.
Four travelers-an art critic, an aspiring painter, an aristocrat, and a mystery writer-meet in Italy's eerie Monster Park of Bomarzo during the Fascist era. The park's grotesque statues hide an…
Giovanni Careri
This study explores three of Bernini’s baroque chapels to show how he achieved his effects. It examines the ways in which the artist integrated the architecture, painting and sculpture into…
Augusto Fraschetti
This collection of essays features important Roman women who were active in politics, theatre, cultural life and religion from the 1st through the 4th centuries. The contributors draw on rare…
