Helen (Hrsg.) Constantine

Rome Tales

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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 fat… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Shankland, Hugh (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-957246-5
EAN: 9780199572465
Produktnummer: 11106342
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Masse: H19.6 cm x B13.0 cm x D1.6 cm 326 g
Abbildungen: Twenty black-and-white photographs
Gewicht: 326
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den 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 DavidConstantine 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.