Spanning a century of history in Italy, this book also unfolds the history of one family, the del Campos. The founder of the dynasty, Gabriele del Campo, begins life as a peasant. As a young man he becomes a captive of the Vatican and, while in prison, he learns the ways of a gentleman.
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Spanning a century of history in Italy, this book also unfolds the history of one family, the del Campos. The founder of the dynasty, Gabriele del Campo, begins life as a peasant. As a young man he becomes a captive of the Vatican and, while in prison, he learns the ways of a gentleman.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. BC4-An unread, tight, clean, sound copy with only very minor overall shelf wear. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear. A novel set in the years before World War II in an Umbrian village in Italy. During the festa of the Madonna del Campo a traveling fair arrives with freaks, jugglers, dypsy dancers, and animals. the main character leaves his fields to see these sights himself. There he enclunters a beautiful young woman and a fateful and obsessive love begins that spans 50 years. The author is a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. By the author of "Keepers of the House, " "The Slow Train to Milan, " "The Tiger, " "The Bay of Silence, " "Black Idol, " "Joanna, " "The Marble Mountain, " "The High Place, " and "Off the Rails." 209p.