A literary exploration of the intersections of family, history and memory traces the stormy relationship between the author's mother and celebrated Italian journalist Ugo Stille, exploring how their b
A masterpiece of literary memory—a powerful exploration of the intersections of family, history, and memory“One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and le
A profoundly moving history of Italy’s Jews under the shadow of the Holocaust, told through the lives of five Jewish Italian families: the Ovazzas of Turin, who prospered under Mussolini and wh
Award-winning author Alexander Stille has been called ?one of the best English-language writers on Italy? by the New York Times Book Review, and in The Sack of Rome he sets out to answer the question:
Space radar, infrared photography, carbon dating, DNA analysis, microfilm, digital databases - we have better technology than ever before for studying and preserving the past. And yet the by-products
