Andrea Di Robilant
Auteur de A Venetian Affair: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
A propos de l'auteur
Andrea di Robilant was born in Italy. He was educated at Le Rosey and Columbia University. He is an Italian journalist and writer. In 2003 he wrote his first book A Venetian Affair. It is a biography of his ancestor in 18th century Venice based on their correspondence; and a sequel entitled Lucia: afficher plus A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon was released in 2008. It was in this book that the search to uncover the identity of the anonymous rose began. Di Robilant¿s describes a pink rose that leads to an invitation to meet the doyenne of European roses, Sra. Eleonora Garlant. The question is- could this unnamed rose possibly be the long-lost Rose Bichonne, a China rose that nineteenth-century growers cultivated but which had apparently disappeared since? In 2011 he published Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers, in which he analyses the claim that two Venetian merchants, the Zeno brothers, sailed over the north Atlantic in a pre-Columbian expedition to North America. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Photo © Jerry Bauer
Œuvres de Andrea Di Robilant
Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers (2011) 108 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1957
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Italy
- Lieux de résidence
- Rome, Italy
- Études
- Le Rosey, Switzerland
Columbia University - Professions
- journalist
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Membres
- 1,155
- Popularité
- #22,250
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 31
- ISBN
- 65
- Langues
- 9
The structure of this book is what stands out the most. It's not a biography of Ramusio, although he is the center at which all these stories culminate. It's rather a collection of vignettes, all of which contributed to Ramusio's final creation. It did take me a few chapters to catch on to this method though, so I encourage readers to stick with it. The only downside is that the timeline can be hard to follow. I expected overlap, of course, but the vignettes are in order of Ramusio's acquisition (I believe?) and not necessarily in chronological order of events. But considering the Age of Discovery, we are always taught about the Spanish, the English and the Portuguese, never the Venetians. Di Robilant definitely counters that omission. Even during war, 16th c. Venezia successfully established trade routes, explored new territories, and, thanks to Ramusio, was the premier source for geographical knowledge.… (plus d'informations)