Author: BACCHELLI, RICCARDO
Title: The MILL on the Po
Description: London, Hutchinson. 1952, First. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy with gilt title and motif on green cloth boards which have no wear. Dustjacket has repaired closed tears and some minor losses and is not price clipped. 592 pages. Map endpapers. This great novel, considered a national epic in its native land, has at its central theme the birth of Italy as a unified nation. However, historical events are described only as they affect the lives of the little people. The central figures are a river mill, its remarkable miller, Lazzaro, the miller's family, and the Po river, on whose banks the mill is anchored. The Po, at the time of the story , was the boundary line between Austria and the Papal States. A1C. Very Good/Good.

Keywords: River Po, Siege of Bologna, Napoleon, Papal States


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