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“Florence is so fantastically painted in this novel. It’s about a soldier named Ulysses. Towards the end of World War Two, there’s bombing going on, and he’s hiding in a cellar in Tuscany and meets an older woman named Evelyn, who’s an art historian. She’s there to check some paintings and they spend an evening together. She tells him all about the art that’s in Florence. He’s never really thought much about art, but what she says sticks with him.” Read more...
Historical Novels Set in Italy
Tracy Chevalier, Historical Novelist
