Mirabilia
Margaret Visser, 31 October 1996
The Land of Hunger
by Piero Camporesi, translated by Tania Croft-Murray and Claire Foley.
Polity, 223 pp., £39.50, December 1995,0 7456 0888 4 Show More
by Piero Camporesi, translated by Tania Croft-Murray and Claire Foley.
Polity, 223 pp., £39.50, December 1995,
Exotic Brew: The Art of Living in the Age of Enlightenment
by Piero Camporesi, translated by Christopher Woodall.
Polity, 193 pp., £29.50, July 1994,0 7456 0877 9 Show More
by Piero Camporesi, translated by Christopher Woodall.
Polity, 193 pp., £29.50, July 1994,
The Magic Harvest: Food, Folklore and Society
by Piero Camporesi, translated by Joan KrakoverHall.
Polity, 253 pp., £39.50, October 1993,0 7456 0835 3 Show More
by Piero Camporesi, translated by Joan KrakoverHall.
Polity, 253 pp., £39.50, October 1993,
“... Reading this plethora of recent translations of Piero Camporesi’s work is rather like getting a book out of a library and being forced to read only the passages heavily underlined by a previous borrower, together with all the angry or thrilled exclamations peppering the margins. Camporesi is professor of Italian literature at the University of Bologna ... ”
