by Axel Munthe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788811668268
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«La Storia di San Michele» is the autobiographical book by Axel Munthe, published by Garzanti Libri in 1999 in paperback.
Axel Munthe recalls in these pages his life as a doctor, philanthropist and animal lover, from his youth in Sweden to his arrival in Capri, where he built the Villa San Michele. The book combines personal anecdotes with portraits of European society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and reflects on medicine, nature and the human condition.
The work was originally published in 1929; this 1999 edition belongs to the Gli Elefanti collection from Garzanti.
Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe was a Swedish-born physician and psychiatrist, best known as the author of The Story of San Michele, an autobiographical account of his life and work. He spoke several languages, grew up in Sweden, attended medical school there, then studied medicine in Paris and opened his first practice in France. He was married to a wealthy Englishwoman and spent most of his adult life in Italy.
