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Francesco's Italy by: Francesco da Mosto List Price: £25.00 City Travel Guides Price: £17.50 You Save: £7.50 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 945 EAN: 9780563493488 ISBN: 0563493488 Label: BBC Books Manufacturer: BBC Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 216 Publication Date: June 08, 2006 Publisher: BBC Books Studio: BBC Books Sales Rank: 3673 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Synopsis: This book presents a journey through Italian culture, past and present. Following his enormously successful TV series and book, "Venice", Francesco da Mosto extends his exploration, this time taking in the whole country. He celebrates the art and beauty of Italy - its cathedrals, churches, palaces, opera houses, paintings, sculpture and music. It is a story of the Italy we all know and love, enhanced by the secret side of the country that only an insider can tell us. Francesco reveals the full glories of Renaissance Italy and the country's astonishing cultural diversity, which was only recently unified under one flag. The accompanying book, following the same format and style of its predecessor, and illustrated with John Parker's stunning photographs, provides a detailed description of Francesco's cultural and artistic journey through Italy. Born into an old and distinguished family, with a Venetian father and a Sicilian mother, what better guide could there be than one who knows and loves this magnificent country? Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Cooffee table stunnerThankfully i managed to record all four episodes of Francescos very entertaining Top to Toe series on Italy onto disc. His ladish exploits in that gorgeous Alfa Spider made the series a more lite hearted affair to his magnificent Venice,and his influnce in being one of the oldest Venitian families opened doors into fabulous palaces and villas that are barred to all members of the public. Naturally he could not spend too long in the north of the country but witnessing Lucca, Puccinis birthplace and Bolognia the oldest university in the world made what he did choose trully excelleny.Veronia was where Shakespeare based Romeo and Juiliet but Shakey never visited the place. The highlite of the series for me was when ... Read More: Rating: - Charmed by the Silver FoxFrancesco da Mosto, an engaging Venetian aristocrat, expands on his earlier fond tribute to his home city, to create a even fonder tribute to his home country. He is a great guide to the cultural pleasures and history of Italy, and his enthusiasm is infectious; the photos in the book are wonderful, too, and all in all, this would make a great gift for anyone who has ever been transported by (or to) Italy. Rating: - Francesco's Italy, FantasticThis is a wonderfully written book with beautiful pictures to support a super tour from the top to the bottom of Italy. If you have been there it is a wonderful reminder, if you are new to this outstanding country it is taste of all that awaits you. Rating:  - Francesco in text.A thoroughly enoyable read, and at the discounted price cannot be overlooked. I expected more submersion in the various regional cultures; somehow these do not transmit as well as they do in the TV series. However this must be one of the 2006 summer essentials for those of us who seek a little more than a package of short stop overs in provincial Italian towns. |
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