A TRAVELLER'S GUIDE
ITALIAN ART, LIFE AND LANDSCAPE, Freee Wall; Heinemann, English price HIS is to be recommended as a most interesting book on Italy, and its emphasis on Florence will interest Kiwis who had the opportunity between fighting and bartering to study the artistic and architectural setting. The back cover blurb says that it is not a baldly written guide book, but in essence a guide book it is, and none the worse for that. Considerable space is devoted to cultural interests and local customs and characteristics, but it would be a poor guide book which did not do so. The photographs are wretched, due, one imagines, to the deliberate rejection of all the orthodox shots and angles of famous buildings and statuary. In particular, one could do without the scaffolding in the Church of St. Apollinarus at Ravenna. The one of St. Peter’s is particularly bad. and looks like the
Belfast Town Hall. —
F. J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 930, 7 June 1957, Page 14
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158A TRAVELLER'S GUIDE New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 930, 7 June 1957, Page 14
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