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...Eri Nakamura will reprise her role as courtesan Violetta opposite Riccardo Della Sciucca as Alfredo....
...Paterlini has just sold two villas in Cala di Volpe bay for €13mn and €6.5mn....
...That Irish bourgeois nightmare, prefigured in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, soon turns into Conor’s dream-come-true as he forms a band — punningly named Sing Street — to impress Raphina...
...Sardinia’s finest hotels are well‑known – Cala di Volpe, for example, is five-star and fantastic – but for a really special place to stay look to Borgo Lianti, a small rental property in the hills near Porto...
...Volpe....
...“Madonna del Parto” by Piero della Francesca. Carol Birch’s new novel ‘Orphans of the Carnival’ is published by Canongate...
...Santa Maria Novella, Via della Scala 16 (+39055-216 276; www.smnovella.it). My style icon is Gianni Agnelli, who also wore suits by my tailor, A Caraceni....
...This year’s opening, though, was different in one important detail: there was also a celebrity accompanist, as Joyce DiDonato stepped forward to sing her wide-ranging programme in the company of Antonio...
...The point at the Dogana beyond Santa Maria della Salute in Venice, with the whole of the Basin of St Mark’s around you....
...Christopher Joyce and Adrian Setright bought the hamlet of four houses, in 8.6 acres, nine years ago....
...(The original Italian title, La Vertigine della Lista – The Vertigo of Lists – has a more authentically Ecovian ring to it.)...
...James Joyce said that as Finnegans Wake had taken him 17 years to write, the reader should not begrudge devoting the same amount of time to deciphering his enigmatic text – the text, as he put it, “sentenced...
...“We're talking about the true independent voter here,” said John Della Volpe, who worked on the survey. The poll used an 11-point questionnaire to assess political attitudes....
..."Two of the six will open it up; four will try and close it down," predicted Mr Joyce....
...As pollster John Della Volpe explained, that allowed questioners to catch up with people who had been away for spring break....
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