Fausta Cataldi Villari Books

Opvattingen en gewoonten omtrent het menselijk lichaam in middeleeuws Europa.

L'opera di maggior respiro di André Chastel, nella quale egli unisce in modo insuperabile la raffinatezza interpretativa, l'eleganza dello stile, la limpidezza dei concetti e delle descrizioni. André Chastel (1912-1990) è uno dei maggiori studiosi del Rinascimento e dell'arte italiana.

Read the lost masterpiece behind the major new film starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Michelle Williams Set during the year that France fell to the Nazis, Suite Française falls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; the second follows the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Suite Française is a novel that teems with wonderful characters struggling with the new regime. However, amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope. True nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places. Irène Némirovsky began writing Suite Française in 1940, but her death in Auschwitz prevented her from seeing the day, sixty-five years later, that the novel would be discovered by her daughter and hailed worldwide as a masterpiece.