Laurence Gartel. Arte e tecnologia.

Sesto Fiorentino, Villa Corsi Salviati,24 ottobre- 22 novembre 1981. A cura di Maria Pia Mannini. Firenze, Electa Ed. 1981, cm.22x24, pp.127, 66 ill.bn.e alcune tavv.a col.a p.pag. brossura cop.fig.a col.

Firenze, Biblioteca Medica Laurenziana, 4/2-15/04/1984. Prefazione di Giulio Carlo Argan. Firenze, Centro Di Ed. 1984, cm.22x24, pp.214, numerose illustrazioni bn.e a colori nel testo molte a p.pagina, brossura copertina figurata a colori.

Venezia, Palazzo Grassi, 30/9-22/10/1978. A cura di Marco Semenzato. Venezia, Azienda Automoma di Sogiorno e Turismo di Venezia 1978, cm.20x21, pp.328, illustraz. bianco e nero e a colori nel testo, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Collana Mostra Mercato Internazionale dell'Antiquariato.

Firenze,Palazzo Strozzi,28/4-30/6/1979. A cura del Comune e della Provincia. Firenze, Vallecchi 1979, cm.22x24, pp.77, 24 tavv.a col.a p.pag. 306 ill.bn.molte a p brossura copertina figurata a colori.

London, Chatto & Windus 2013, cm.16x24, pp.528, legatura editoriale cartonata, sopraccoperta figurata a colori. Edizione con firma autografa dell'autrice. Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. The first group of these drew on her own experiences -- a boat on the Thames in the 1960s; the BBC in war time; a failing bookshop in a Suffolk; an eccentric stage-school. The later ones opened out to encompass historical worlds which, magically, she seemed to possess entirely: Russia before the Revolution; post-war Italy; Germany in the time of the Romantic writer Novalis. Fitzgerald's life is as various, as cryptic and as intriguing as her fiction. It spans most of the twentieth century, and moves from a Bishop's Palace to a sinking barge, from a demanding intellectual family to hardship and poverty, from a life of teaching and obscurity to a blaze of renown. She started publishing at sixty and became famous at eighty. This is a story of lateness, patience and persistence: a private form of heroism.