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Author: Iris Origo, 1902 1988
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English born; educated in Florence; devoted herself to the development of La Foce, her Tuscan farming estate, which she and her husband, the Marchese Antonio Origo, converted into a refuge for children from the bombed cities of northern Italy and for escaped Allied prisoners of war.
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Origo, Iris, 1902-1988, editor
The Vagabond Path. An Anthology Compiled by Iris Origo
Publisher: NY, Scribner's Sons, 1972.. xvi, 301 p., 23 cm. An anthology of poetry mostly in English but also Italian, French, German, Latin, Spanish. The 'vagabond path' refers to Origo's distinctively personal way of enjoying and selecting. Stock# 38,076. Vg/ dj vg. Literature; verse.
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AUD 43.72 | CAD 42.83 | EUR 26.90 | GBP 24.23 | JPY 3,636.36 | MXN 519.48 | ZAR 303.03 |
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Item number: 38076.
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Origo, Iris, 1902-1988
The Last Attachment. The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli
Publisher: N.Y., Scribner's, 1949.. 533 p., 8 plates, 22.5 cm. The last attachment is Byron's intense love affair with the Contessa Guiccioli. Based on 160 letters from the poet to her, and some of her replies, together with her previously unpublished manuscript account of his life in Italy. This is the issue in dark blue cloth with an orange dj with London, John Murray and Jonathan Cape on spine. Stock# 38,075. Vg/ dj vg. Byron, George Gordon, sixth baron, 1788-1824.
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Origo, Iris, 1902-1988
A Measure of Love
Publisher: N.Y., Pantheon, [1958].. 256 p. 6 plates, 22.5 cm. Five studies of nineteenth-century people: Lord Byron's daughter Allegra; the Contessa Marina Benzon; Thomas Carlyle; Giuseppe Mazzini; and Marie Leneru. ”Each of these portraits is a work of art: the author has conveyed the vigour or the pathos of each character with insight, delicacy and truth.” Stock# 38,077x. Vg/vg. English literature; Culture; Italian biography, history, .
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AUD 32.79 | CAD 32.12 | EUR 20.17 | GBP 18.17 | JPY 2,727.27 | MXN 389.61 | ZAR 227.27 |
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Item number: 38077.
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Origo, Iris, 1902-1988
War In Val D'Orcia. A Diary
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape, ”First Published 1947.”. 239 p. 20.5 cm. The American-Irish Marchesa, married to an Italian and living, a refugee from Rome, at their country estate below Siena, tells in simple undramatic language what it was like to conduct domestic life from January 1943 to July 1944 when the tide of battle passed though the countryside. Stock# 38,079. Vg/ no dj. Italian history; World War II.
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AUD 27.32 | CAD 26.77 | EUR 16.81 | GBP 15.14 | JPY 2,272.73 | MXN 324.68 | ZAR 189.39 |
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Item number: 38079.
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Origo, Iris, 1902-1988.
The Last Attachment. The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli.
Publisher: N.Y., Scribner's, 1949. 533 p. , 8 plates, 22.5 cm. The last attachment is Byron's intense love affair with the Contessa Guiccioli. Based on 160 letters from the poet to her, and some of her replies, together with her previously unpublished manuscript account of his life in Italy. This is the issue in greenish-blue cloth with a red dj. Stock# 38,074. Vg/ dj vg.
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AUD 43.72 | CAD 42.83 | EUR 26.90 | GBP 24.23 | JPY 3,636.36 | MXN 519.48 | ZAR 303.03 |
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Item number: 38074.
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Origo, Iris, 1902-1988
The Merchant of Prato, Francesco di Marco Datini, 1335-1410.
Publisher: New York, Knopf, 1957.. xxii, 415, vii p. illus. (part col.) facsims. 24 cm. Gino Corti did the research, the Marchesa Origo put together this study of Francesco Datini 1335-1410, a vivid portrayal of Tuscan life about 1400. Stock# 40,726. Vg/ no dj. Bibliography: p. 394-400.
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AUD 16.39 | CAD 16.06 | EUR 10.09 | GBP 9.09 | JPY 1,363.64 | MXN 194.81 | ZAR 113.64 |
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Item number: 40726.
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Origo, Iris, 1902-1988.
A Need To Testify.
Publisher: Murray [London, 1984]. xiii, 274 p., index, plates, 22.5 cm. Portraits of Lauro de Bosis, Ruth Draper, Gaetano Salvemini, Ignazio Silone, heroes of the anti-fascist movement in Italy and people the marchesa knew. This is a sensitive and committed book; an essay on biography. Stock# 24,409x. Fine/ dj fine.
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AUD 21.86 | CAD 21.41 | EUR 13.45 | GBP 12.11 | JPY 1,818.18 | MXN 259.74 | ZAR 151.52 |
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Item number: 24409.
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