Country interiors.

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1985, cm.14x21,5, pp.124, aclune tavole bn.ft. brossura copertina figurata.

With a frontespice in colour and 106 illustrations, plans and maps. London. Cassell and Company 1913, cm.17x25, pp.XV,304, hardcover, clothbound The book tells the story of a murder trial in Rome, Papal States in 1698, whereby an impoverished nobleman, Count Guido Franceschini, is found guilty of the murders of his young wife Pompilia (née Comparini) and her parents, having suspected his wife was having an affair with a young cleric, Giuseppe Caponsacchi. Having been found guilty despite his protests and sentenced to death, Guido then appeals—unsuccessfully—to Pope Innocent XII to overturn the conviction. The poem comprises twelve books, ten of which are dramatic monologues spoken by different characters involved in the case (Count Guido speaks twice), usually giving a different account of the same events, and two books (the first and the last) spoken by the author.

Milano, Mondadori cm.23,5x25,5, pp.280, ill.a colori. legatura editoriale cartonata, sopracoperta figurata a colori.

Photographs by Alex Ramsay. London, Thames and Hudson 2001, cm.26x32,5, pp.208 ill.a colori. legatura editoriale cartonata, sopracopeta figurata a colori. Author of the highly successful The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany, James Bentley, along with photographer Alex Ramsay, has now turned his attention to more extensive, though equally beautiful, Tuscan communities. Travelling from north to south of the region, as in the Villages volume, we encounter first the towns with substantial Etruscan and Romanesque features, then the walled towns of central Tuscany, followed by the coastal and thermal communities of the south. The country towns described and photographed in this book have been selected not only to exemplify the remarkable variety of this part of Italy but also because they embody its altogether exceptional artistic, gastronomic and cultural heritage. Twenty of the most beautiful towns of this opulent land are treated in this visual and textual feast by Alex Ramsay and James Bentley, which is completed by a guide to the principal sights, events, hotels and restaurants of each town. The whole volume makes a wonderful companion to The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany.