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by Mary McCarthy · Mondadori · tapa dura · 193 pages
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Sumérgete en la rica historia y el espíritu artístico de Florencia con 'Piedras de Florencia' de Mary McCarthy. Este libro ofrece una visión única de la ciudad, desde sus orígenes hasta su papel dominante en el mundo del arte y la cultura italiana. McCarthy captura la esencia de Florencia y revisita a figuras legendarias como Dante, Miguel Ángel y Maquiavelo, quienes personifican su legado. Descubre los lugares y experiencias más preciados de esta ciudad atemporal y fascinante.

Mary Therese McCarthy was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel The Group, her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, her intimate friendship with her colleague Hannah Arendt and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman. McCarthy was the winner of the Horizon Prize in 1949 and was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1949 and 1959. She was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome. In 1973, she delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title Can There Be a Gothic Literature? The same year she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She won the National Medal for Literature and the Edward MacDowell Medal in 1984. McCarthy held honorary degrees from Bard, Bowdoin, Colby, Smith College, Syracuse University, the University of Maine at Orono, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Hull.