tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post3791246365120735602..comments2024-03-28T16:48:23.212-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `He Did Not Move for Four Hours'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-87474429114533999252017-03-03T15:08:08.417-06:002017-03-03T15:08:08.417-06:00Salvatore Savoia in Chapter 13 (‘La biblioteca d...Salvatore Savoia in Chapter 13 (‘La biblioteca di Giuseppe Tomasi’) of his ‘Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa' (Palermo: Flaccovio Editore, 2010) gives what he calls a ‘rapida carrellata’ of the depleted remnants of the ‘Biblioteca Lampedusa’ (6,047 volumes in at least five languages). Bibliophiles would wish for more than the whistle-stop tour on offer, but when are bibliophiles ever content with intelligence divulged concerning other people's libraries? No mention at all of Shakespeare but ‘his beloved Balzaac was represented by 27 volumes, as well as various biographies and Gallimard’s Comédie humaine.’Alexander MacAulayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03219052881741404314noreply@blogger.com