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SUMMER
2005 SELECTIONS:
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Dante
in Love: The world's greatest poem and how
it made history by Harriet Rubin.
Banished from his native
Florence by political rivals, Dante
Alighieri (1265-1321) spent the last
20 years of his life in bitter exile.
But during his travels through Italy,
inspired by the memory of his childhood
love, Beatrice, Dante also discovers
the meaning of life captured in his
epic poem, La Divina Commedia. [$13.00;
paperback; 274 pages; Simon & Schuster]
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The
Long Italian Goodbye by Robert Benedetti.
Chicago's West Side Little Italy in 1948
was more like a village in his grandparents' native
Tuscany than an American neighborhood to ten-year
old Joey. An only child born in the Great Depression,
Joey's Italian American childhood shapes this coming
of age novel by Emmy-Award-winning film producer
Robert Benedetti. [$19.95; hardcover; 231
pages; Durban House]
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Between
Salt Water and Holy Water: A history
of Southern Italy by
Tommaso Astarita. Southern Italy
is rich in culture but poor in industry.
Its six major regions make up nearly
one-third of Italy, but for many southerners
and northerners alike, the area is not
considered "really" Italy. Naples-born
author Astarita reveals the economic,
political and historical conditions that
have helped shape the Italian south.[$24.95;
hardcover; 352 pages; W.W. Norton & Company]
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