{"product_id":"the-idea-of-italy-9780300263831","title":"The Idea of Italy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA unique portrait of nineteenth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of the first generation of British photographers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Anyone interested in Italy will be fascinated and enchanted by \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of Italy: Photography and the British Imagination, 1840–1900\u003c\/i\u003e. Edited by Maria Antonella Pelizzari and Scott Wilcox, it features sixteen essays exploring a wide range of topics—from tourist images of ‘a ghostly landscape of well-lit but unpopulated historical sites’ to picturesque peasants and outlaws, costumed models and Risorgimento heroes.”—James Hall, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, “Books of 2022”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In E. M. Forster’s \u003ci\u003eA Room with a View\u003c\/i\u003e, the young heroine Lucy Honeychurch spends ‘nearly seven lire’ at Alinari’s, the shop of a Florence-based firm founded in 1852 and specialising in the photographic reproduction of Italy’s great works of art. . . . The images on these handsomely illustrated pages, together with 16 essays, reveal many of the same attitudes that Forster so brilliantly exposes.”—Sophie Barling, \u003ci\u003eWorld of Interiors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale Center for British Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401569214807,"sku":"9780300263831","price":38.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300263831.jpg?v=1730477830","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-idea-of-italy-9780300263831","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}