Florence: A Delicate Case

Readers as well as travelers will enjoy this literary guide to the lives and impressions of the many British and Americans who lived and wrote here. Aside from descriptions of art, light, landscape, and history, Leavitt finds many traces within the literary sources of Florence's active gay culture during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR

David Leavitt is the author of several novels and short story collections, most recently The Marble Quilt. With Mark Mitchell, he has co-written two books about Italy, Italian Pleasures and In Maremma. He is a recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and was recently named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. David Leavitt divides his time between Tuscany and Gainesville, Florida, where he teaches at the University of Florida.