Pietros Book The Story Of A Tuscan Peasant

Author : Pietro Pinti
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 161145980X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pietro's Book: The Story of a Tuscan Peasant written by Pietro Pinti and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pietro Pinti, born as he says 'in the Middle Ages,' worked the land with hoe and plow from his earliest youth. Growing up under Mussolini's Fascist regime on a farm near Florence, he and his family lived under conditions of extreme poverty, as sharecroppers to generally unscrupulous landowners. But during World War II, when millions in towns and cities suffered untold hardships, the hardy Tuscan peasants were well equipped to face the rigors of the era: war or no war, work on the land went on, and Pietro describes month by month a typical year in their lives: how they made wine and olive oil, planted and harvested the wheat by hand, made baskets and ladders from chestnut wood-skills now lost. With sly wit and salty wisdom, Pietro, a natural storyteller who played the trumpet, wrote poetry, and grew famous for his tales of peasants, knights, and brigands, recreates in colorful detail a world and peasant culture that is fast disappearing. Jenny Bawtree, an Englishwoman long settled in Tuscany, was so fascinated by Pietro's stories that she helped shape them into this autobiography, full of color and humor, hardship and nostalgia.

Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487502923
Total Pages : 1104 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation 1929-2016 written by Robin Healey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey's Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.

Author : Jeffrey Bailey
Publisher : Matador
ISBN 13 : 1784626082
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Total Pages : 974 pages
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Author : John Ruskin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
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Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin: Studies of peasant life: the story of Ida. Roadside songs of Tuscany. Christ's folk in the Apennine. Ulric the farm servant written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1-35, works. Volume 36-37, letters. Volume 38 provides an extensive bibliography of Ruskin's writings and a catalogue of his drawings, with corrections to earlier volumes in George Allen's Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Volume 39, general index.

Author : Arthur James Wells
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1926 pages
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Author : Melvil Dewey
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Total Pages : 1032 pages
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Download or read book Library Journal written by Melvil Dewey and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

Author : Ed Bowker Staff
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
ISBN 13 : 9780835246422
Total Pages : 3274 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 560 pages
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