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1	Images & Shadows: Part of a Life more books like this by Iris Origo add to wishlist The autobiography of Iris Origo, this book recounts her childhood divided between three different worlds, New York, Ireland and Italy; her marriage to Antonio Origo, and her work with refugee children, feeding partisans and helping Allied prisoners-of-war during the German occupation. see all copies from £1.73! new only from £10.65! \| first editions
2	War in Val Dorcia more books like this by Iris Origo add to wishlist This is the true story of Iris Origo and her husband, and their efforts to protect and rescue refugees and hide prisoners of war in the Italian countryside during World War II. A stirring document about basic humanitarianism and true courage, it is a classic of war literature. see all copies from £5.07! new only from £10.11! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The merchant of Prato more books like this by Iris Origo add to wishlist see all copies from £2.97! new only from £9.94! \| first editions
4	The Merchant of Prato, Francesco Di Marco Datini, 1335-1410 more books like this by Iris Origo add to wishlist Datini, a fourteenth-century Florentine merchant banker, provides us with one of the great success stories of the Middle Ages. He left behind the entire archive of his business - over 150,000 letters, some 500 ledgers and accounts books, and a mass of personal and business documents that Iris Origo tracked down, translated, selected, and made ... see all copies from £15.78! new only from £65.64! \| first editions
5	The Merchant of Prato, Francesco Di Marco Datini more books like this by Iris Origo add to wishlist see all copies from £1.24! first editions
6	The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli as Told in Their Unpublished Letters and Other Family Papers more books like this by Iris Scuttingg Origo add to wishlist When Maggie's husband, smooth, silver-haired, patrician Jeremy, the British Ambassador to Vienna, drops dead unexpectedly of a heart attack, she is stunned. But her shock soon turns to fury when she discovers that he died in the arms of a beautiful blonde Viennese hostess -- and that moreover while she, Maggie, was expected to make all sorts of ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.30! \| first editions
7	A Need to Testify more books like this by Iris Origo, Ted Morgan (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from £4.15! new only from £8.89! \| first editions
8	The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron and Teresa Guccioli more books like this by Iris Origo, Jonathan Galassi (Introduction by) add to wishlist This work, based on letters discovered in the Gamba archive, studies the relationship between the poet Lord Byron and his lover Countess Guiccioli, nee Gamba. Many details about Byron's political activities in Italy are included. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
9	A Need to Testify: Portraits of Lauro de Bosis, Ruth Draper, Gaetano Salvemini, Ignazio Silone and an Essay on Biography more books like this by Iris Origo add to wishlist see all copies from £2.46! first editions
10	The vagabond path. more books like this by Iris Origo (Compiled by) add to wishlist see all copies from £8.56! first editions
11	War in Val D'Orcia : an Italian war diary, 1943-1944 more books like this by Iris Origo add to wishlist The author, an Anglo-American married to an Italian landowner in 1924, found herself raising a family during the civil war and foreign invasion in the remote Tuscan countryside. This diary records her concerns to keep her household and sixty orphans together and save a rural community from annihilation. It is a story of confusion and bewilderment ... see all copies from £3.70! new only from £5.41! \| first editions
12	Leopardi: A Study in Solitude more books like this by Iris Origo add to wishlist This biography of the great Italian Romantic poet was first published in 1935, telling the story of a poet whose pessimism and illness made the beautiful successes of his poems bittersweet and left him welcoming his early death. see all copies from £22.88! first editions
13	War in Val D'Orcia: 1943-1944: A Diary more books like this by Iris Origo add to wishlist This is the true story of Iris Origo and her husband, and their efforts to protect and rescue refugees and hide prisoners of war in the Italian countryside during World War II. A stirring document about basic humanitarianism and true courage, it is a classic of war literature. see all copies from £5.89! new only from £22.30! \| first editions
14	Allegra by Iris Origo add to wishlist see all copies from £20.11! first editions
15	The vagabond path: an anthology more books like this by Iris Origo (Compiled by) add to wishlist see all copies from £29.22! first editions
16	A measure of love more books like this by Iris Origo add to wishlist see all copies from £14.51! first editions
17	The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli more books like this by Iris Origo add to wishlist Contessa Teresa Guiccioli was nineteen years old -- and married to a jealous and violent husband -- when she became Byron's mistress in 1819. Incorporating 116 letters from Byron to Teresa, and some of her answers to him, Iris Origo's narrative of Byron's Italian years not only follows the lovers' five year affair but provides real insight into ... see all copies from £7.00! new only from £21.26! \| first editions
18	The world of San Bernardino. more books like this by Iris Origo add to wishlist see all copies from £9.22! first editions
19	War in Val d'Orcia : a diary more books like this by Iris Origo add to wishlist see all copies from £7.14! first editions
20	Guerra en Val D'orcia: Un diario de guerra italiano 1943-1944 by Iris Origo add to wishlist see all copies from £12.33!
21	Le Marchand De Prato by Iris Origo add to wishlist see all copies from £38.10! new only from £38.10!

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