{"product_id":"florence-stories-9780593318577","title":"Florence Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis stunning hardcover collection brings alive the magnificent Italian city of Florence through the eyes of literary greats from Dante to Salman Rushdie.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this gorgeously jacketed anthology of classic stories, an international array of brilliant writers provide windows onto the city's gilded past and full-blooded present. Florence's world-famous Renaissance is represented here by its most illustrious chroniclers, beginning with Dante's vision of an \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e teeming with his Florentine contemporaries, Boccaccio's bawdy tales of young Florentine nobles in \u003ci\u003eThe Decameron, \u003c\/i\u003e and the artist Cellini's swashbuckling adventures. The city's long tradition of attracting foreign visitors is celebrated by selections from Mark Twain's \u003ci\u003eThe Innocents Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e, E. M. Forster's \u003ci\u003eA Room with a View\u003c\/i\u003e, and the rapturous impressions of Stendhal (who gave his name to Stendhal syndrome). Mary McCarthy provides a vivid depiction of a twentieth-century market town; Penelope Fitzgerald weaves a gentle comedy of manners among Florence's fading aristocracy; Vasco Pratolini, one of the city's most renowned modern authors, tells a tender tale of brotherly love among the urban poor under 1930s fascism; and Salman Rushdie dazzles with the magical realism of \u003ci\u003eThe Enchantress of Florence\u003c\/i\u003e. George Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, Somerset Maugham, and Iris Origo are among the other brilliant writers whose stories illuminate facets of this fascinating city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593318577\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448","brand":"Ella Carr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39521915666613,"sku":"9780593318577","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_04409505-e9db-46fc-9f74-15ad281fd13a.jpg?v=1616507314","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/florence-stories-9780593318577","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}