Iris Origo erzählt das Leben des Kaufmanns Datini aus dem toskanischen Prato, eines klassischen S...

Iris Origo erzählt das Leben des Kaufmanns Datini aus dem toskanischen Prato, eines klassischen S...

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'A remarkably moving document that, like the best of the elemental war stories, eventually b...

The lucidly written memoir of Iris Origo, the writer of the bestselling War in Val d'OrciaIt...

An extremely moving account of the lonely life of the unloved and tragic genius - described as 't...

A gripping unpublished diary from the bestselling diarist and biographer, covering Italy's d...

The last - and arguably most intense - love affair of one of the greatest British poetsTeresa...

In 1939 it was not a foregone conclusion that Mussolini would enter World War II on the side of H...

In the Second World War, Italy was torn apart by German armies, civil war, and the Allied in...

An extraordinary memoir by Iris Origo, who chronicled political life in A Chill in the Air and Wa...

A warm, intimate, and engrossing biography of Francesco di Marco Datini, who built a powerful mer...