The Making and Unmaking of Mediterranean Landscape in Italian Literature : The Case of Liguria (The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies)

Situated between Po Valley and the Mediterranean Sea, Liguria appears as a rainbow-shaped and mountainous island, extending from the Tuscan sandy shores of Versilia to the French Alps. Through several modern and contemporary poets and novelists, Pagano illustrates fragile beauty of this quintessential Mediterranean landscape.