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Narrative Non-Fiction

Il giardino dell'arte

(The Garden of Art)

Adriano Salani Editore, March 2020, pp.712

Sophie’s World meets Italian art in a very special title that is both a guide and a coming-of-age novel, a starting point for knowledge and an incentive to travel.

English sample available – Bestseller List

David is a graduate student in art history at the University of Halifax in Canada. Thanks to a scholarship he embarks on an exciting journey across Italy to discover the treasures he has been studying all his life. Twenty different cities in twenty days, a kind of modern Grand Tour in the footsteps of illustrious predecessors like Goethe. David’s thoughts and comments about important topics, places and artists – different in every chapter – appear in the e-mail dialogue between him and his mentor, the extraordinary lecturer who chose him to be his pupil.
A cornucopia of history, art and culture, told in simple, clear language accessible to all.

Adriano Salani Editore, March 2020, pp.712

  • “A journey amid art treasures reveals another Renaissance.”

    Roberta Scorranese, Corriere della Sera

  • “Strinati gradually builds a plausible ‘didactic novel’, a ‘conte artistique’ in the style of the ‘contes philosophique’ of the Enlightenment.”

    Pasquale Chessa, Il Messaggero

  • “A Grand Tour updated to the 21st century for the protagonist of this book which, at first sight, seems like a novel. It does, however, conceal subtext, plots, theories and clues that evoke an unusual history of art.”

    Dario Pappalardo, la Repubblica - Robinson

  • “A Grand Tour across 10 Italian cities.”

    il venerdì - la Repubblica

Claudio Strinati

Claudio Strinati is one of the most authoritative and well-known art experts and a prominent scholar of 17th- century Italian art. He has worked for the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Environments, and was a superintendent for the institute of Rome museums from 2001 and 2009. He writes for many scientific publications, various dailies and has a regular column on the Huffington Post. His book Il giardino dell’arte. Il romanzo di un viaggio fra le meraviglie d’Italia (2019) was also published by Salani.

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