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The Villa Diana, Travels in Post-war Italy

The Villa Diana, Travels in Post-war Italy

by Alan Moorehead

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

Originally written in 1951, this travelogue by the noted war correspondent and writer of popular histories recounts a post-World War II journey Moorehead undertook along an Etruscan road to Villa Diana, in one of the oldest inhabited parts of Italy, above Florence and the valley of the Arno.  (ITA300, $12.95)

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