Pictures from Italy

Complete and unabridged, with 37 full-page plates by Francesco Guardi, Canaletto and Bernardo Bellotto. Dickens takes his family to Italy for a year and writes down what he sees: Genoa, the Carnival at Rome, a public execution he watched from a window, and the roads between. He wrote it as letters home first and kept the tone - no ruins-and-reverence, and a great deal about how people actually liv...