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“... and ends his days on an island in the Mediterranean. The fact that it is all true, researched by Victoria deGrazia down to the minutest detail of couture gowns and canonical law, only makes it more fantastical. The soldier was Attilio Teruzzi, a wine merchant’s son born in Milan in 1882. The American diva was an ...”

“... I don’t care, because, being an introduction, this book does not aspire to discovery. Barroll, de Grazia, and Razzell, by contrast, all say something genuinely new. None is a biographer; none offers the pleasures of narrative, or the illusion of a whole life, or the interpretive transformation of a work which a knowledge of the author’s life can ...”