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Italian painters of the renaissance by bernard berenson rd impression read more
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Book condition throughout very good: dust jacket completeĀ and unmarked, cloth covers very good and all pages crisp and cleanelegantly constructed, beautifully and precisely written, they are shot through with high-octane malice, sharp judgements and blistering comments, and many wonderfully funny episodestrevor roper promised to write to him and his letters continued until berenson's death in inĀ he has a memorable journey on a pilgrims' bus in persia, goes behind the iron curtain to meet communist dignitaries and speeds in his glamorous grey bentley to visit duchesses in the scottish borderssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop shaftesbury when they met in trevor-roper, a young historian at christ church, oxford, was 33berenson, the world-famous art critic, was 82, frail but still intensely curious about the worldfigures in the letters include evelyn waugh, isaiah berlin, alewis and harold macmillanĀ trevor-roper was an intellectual heavyweight, but the overall tone here is one of amusement at the human comedy', the vanity, snobbery and human weakness he sees all around himat the same time he loves intrigue and controversyrowse, anthony eden, gerald brenan, asubjects range widely: several brilliant set-pieces on oxford college elections, books, journalism, publishing, politics (postwar europe, ex-nazis and collaborators, the cold war, suez, etc), history and history-writing, personal life (including marriage to earl haig's daughter alexandra after her messy divorce), travel, gossip, and so ontaylor, arnold toynbee, dimitri shostakovitch, c
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Condition is like newdispatched with royal mail 2nd class large letterberenson, david mbasic business statistics: international edition by mark l
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