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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. The red boards are clean with some bumping to the edges, with clear. lettering to the spine. Mild foxing to page edge's with tanning. The binding is firm. The pages are clean with some tanning. This book has 221 pages. All in all a nice example of this book.

Cloth, 8vo, 22 cm, xi, 221 pp, [11] pp of plates. From the translator's foreword: "A small Society called the Tuscan Society for the Study of the Risorgimento still gathers once a year in some Tuscan city to read and hear papers upon some aspect of that period, barely a hundred years ago, during which the people of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and of the other kingdoms, principalities and Papal States rose at various times and places to achieve the United Kingdom of Italy. England was officially and unofficially associated with these events. The United States had several artists resident in Italy at the time, alongside those little colonies of English poets, writers and artists who found the delight and the economy of life in the hillsides of Tuscany and in the sober spacious rooms of Florentine dwellings as agreeable then, as the contemporary American residents find them now.This book will take [its readers] a little further into a corner of the great and ancient tapestry that is Italy - a Tuscan corner - seen or woven, not by a foreigner, but by a Florentine, observing and noting the things that amused or interested her in the voluminous records left by the Anglo-Florentines of a hundred years ago. All the Anglo-Florentines left records in diaries and novels and letters, poems and essays, of their experiences, and the author's long association with the Tuscan Society for Risorgimento Studies has prompted her to gather many of the passages which struck her fancy, among the fine records of the British Institute in Florence and the unique collection of the Vieusseux Library there, as well as from other sources." English translation of the Italian "Anglo-Fiorentini di cento anni fa". Very Good.…