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Innocence is a 1986 novel by the British author Penelope Fitzgerald. Set in 1950s Italy, it follows the relationship and marriage of the 17-year-old daughter of an old but impoverished aristocratic family and a young neurologist who has resolved never to be emotionally dependent upon anyone. Innocence is the first of a group of four historical ...
Oct 9, 1986 · Paula has followed her husband from Europe out of the estate, bringing with her his intellectual brother Alex, and a cousin, Thérèse. Alex is in love with Paula, and Thérèse with Alex. Two years after the boy is born Paula escapes back to Europe, and the boy is looked after by Thérèse and a peasant girl.
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Jan 1, 1986 · This ambiguity makes the account of the love affair between Chiara Ridolfi, the daughter of a Florentine family of long lineage and little money, and Dr Salvatore Rossi, the neurologist from the Italian South, a far more intricate story than its theme suggests.
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Nenna’s husband, Edward, refuses to join her on the barge, while Richard’s wife, Laura, is intensely uncomfortable aboard ship and eventually deserts her husband to dwell ashore.
Dec 9, 2019 · In her sixth novel, Innocence (1986), set in 1950s Italy, Fitzgerald provides two tantalising glimpses of the future of Chiara and Salvatore, the main characters. In one flash forward, their wedding photographs are seen from the perspective of someone looking back, three decades later.
Set in Florence in 1955, the novel revolves around a down-on-its-luck aristocratic family, the Ridolfis, and in particular the love affair between the reckless 18-year-old Chiara Ridolfi and Salvatore Rossi, a troubled, self-made doctor from a two-lire Southern town.
- Penelope Fitzgerald
Mar 18, 2013 · Set in Florence in 1955, the novel revolves around a down-on-its-luck aristocratic family, the Ridolfis, and in particular the love affair between the reckless 18-year-old Chiara Ridolfi and Salvatore Rossi, a troubled, self-made doctor from a two-lire Southern town.
