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“... 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 ...”

“... aching tooth, the dislocated thumb, the rumbling appendix. A third study in pre-modern health is Piero Camporesi’ s Bread of Dreams, to which Roy Porter contributes an introduction. Briefly, Porter says that Camporesi ‘possesses great shock value’, especially for ‘the stolid Anglo-Saxon reader’, and that ...”