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'What do Antipodeans seek in Tuscany and what do they find? Germaine Greer went from rapture to rejection, Robert Hughes from rapture to Time, David Malouf from disappointment to appreciation and New Zealand troops from Chianti to Florence, which they helped liberate in World War II. The responses have been richly varied during the 150 years Tuscany has been a magnet and a benchmark. Antipodeans have found welcome echoes and unexpected resonances but this is the first time their story has been told with such flair and nuance.
'With contributions by David Malouf, Vincent O’Sullivan & Alan Moorehead'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Contents
* Contents derived from the
North Melbourne,
Flemington - North Melbourne area,
Melbourne - North,
Melbourne,
Victoria,:Australian Scholarly Publishing
, 2016 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Finding Their Passionate True Selves, single work prose travel (p. 6-24)
- The Florentine Branch of The Bulletin : An Australian Girl in Florence, single work prose (p. 25-39)
- Mining for Stories, single work prose (p. 40-44)
- A Tale of Three Cities, single work prose (p. 45-56)
- Recharging Batteries, single work prose (p. 57-66)
- Redeeming the Gods, single work prose (p. 67-73)
- Tuscan by Right of Admiration and Listening to Agatina, single work prose (p. 74-82)
- Are the Locals Just Stereotypes?, single work prose (p. 83-86)
- The Baptised Landscape, single work prose (p. 87-95)
- Studying Tuscany, single work prose (p. 96-98)
- An Australian-Tuscan Artistic Circuit, single work prose (p. 99-107)
- Tuscany and New Zealand Linked by War, single work prose (p. 108-130)
- New Zealand Writers, Artists and Others, single work prose (p. 131-142)
- Tuscans in the Antipodes, single work prose (p. 143-152)
- Listening to the Voice of Tuscany, single work prose (p. 153-159)
- No One's Written a Song, single work prose (p. 160-175)
- Alan Moorehead : Letters to Bernard Berenson, single work correspondence (p. 176-196)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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At Home under the Tuscan Sun
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 March 2017; (p. 20) 'From the time of the early Enlightenment, the British upper classes sent their sons on the Grand Tour, a sort of moving finishing school through the great centres of classical and Renaissance Europe. As Edward Gibbon wrote in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, “According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.” Young men from other northern principalities also hit the trail, which led south, often through France, to the rolling landscapes and art treasures of Italy: the epitome of civilisation.' (Introduction)
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At Home under the Tuscan Sun
2017
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4 March 2017; (p. 20) 'From the time of the early Enlightenment, the British upper classes sent their sons on the Grand Tour, a sort of moving finishing school through the great centres of classical and Renaissance Europe. As Edward Gibbon wrote in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, “According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.” Young men from other northern principalities also hit the trail, which led south, often through France, to the rolling landscapes and art treasures of Italy: the epitome of civilisation.' (Introduction)
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