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" Fleeting Rome : "
Carlo Levi ; translated by Tony Shugaar.
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BL
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1006482
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b760852
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Roma fuggitiva.English
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Levi, Carlo,1902-1975.
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Fleeting Rome : : in search of la dolce vita /\ Carlo Levi ; translated by Tony Shugaar.
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Chichester, West Sussex, England ;Hoboken, NJ :: J. Wiley,, 2005.
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1 online resource (xxxvii, 280 pages) :: illustrations
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0470871849
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: 0470871857
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: 9780470871843
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: 9780470871850
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0470871830
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Fleeting Rome In Search of La Dolce Vita; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Eternal and Fleeting; Translator's Note; I The People of Rome; II The Solitude of Rome; III The Two-Cent Coin; IV Sunday Stroll; V The Helicopter; VI Apparitions in Rome; VII The Duty of the Comet; VIII Elegy to the Mid-August Holidays; IX Hyperbolic Tourism; X Killing Time; XI Points of View; XII The Power of the Poor; XIII Brigands and Peasants; XIV Plants and Seeds; XV The Steps of Rome; XVI The Empty Cities; XVII Girls and Trees; XVIII A Dawn in Rome; XIX Summer Journey; XX The New Moon.
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XXI San Lorenzo and San PaoloXXII A Child in Flight; XXIII After the Party; XXIV Substance and Chance; XXV Clothes Moths; XXVI Japanese Toys; XXVII Football and Men of Letters; XXVIII The Drainage Ditch and the Measles; XXIX A Boy Steals a Car Radio in the Piazza Navona; XXX The Labyrinth; XXXI City of Brothers; XXXII Summer Dissolves in Mists; XXXIII Fleeting Rome; Notes to the Text; Basic Chronology of Carlo Levi's Life; Index.
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Only a renaissance man could have described this glorious city in its heyday. And only Carlo Levi, writer, painter, politician and one of the last century's most celebrated talents, could depict Rome at the height of its optimism and vitality after World War II.
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HISTORY.
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Manners and customs.
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Travel.
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Rome (Italy), Description and travel.
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Rome (Italy), Social life and customs.
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Italy, Rome.
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945/.6320925
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DG806.2.L4813 2005eb
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