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Time Travel through Italy: Wandering with Fred and Dante
Experience the best of Italy's places and people! This magical journey travels through time and place! Visit as Dr. Lundberg personally guides you through Florence, Siena, San Gimignano, Lucca, Verona, Ravenna, Venice, Sicily, Eternal Rome, and more! All the great locations in ancient and modern Italy! From ancient Rome through the Crusades to the magnificent Holy Roman Emperors like Frederick II, and the greatest Italian writer of all, Dante Alighieri! But most of all the beating heart and culture of enduring Bella Italia! David continues his Time Travel books with the enchanted, ever romantic land in the center of the Mediterranean world! Blending ancient history and modern travel, David takes us on a fantastic journey of culture, showing how the beautiful Italians merged into what they and their country are today!
Non basta una vita!
One life is not enough!!
Non basta una vita!
One life is not enough!!
197 pages, Paperback
Published February 25, 2020
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March 17, 2020
‘Non basta una vita!’ – One life is not enough!
North Carolina author David Cassidy Lundberg, PhD is a retired Air Force officer and university professor, having gained his degrees from the United States Air Force Academy, Boston University and the University of North Carolina. David Lundberg is a fine writer for starters: we know from prior novels that his prose is perky and eloquent at times and always atmospheric and full of momentum. In his book on the history of Ireland we discovered he is also a poet – that book is in the format of poetry. Now David escorts us to Italy, in a manner that is at once entertaining and educational, delivered in a unique style that once again is proof of his plethora of skills as an author.
In this exceptionally fine book David shares his actual travels and time in Italy as a pathway to sharing the glories of that wondrous cradle of civilization. In his introduction, he describes his flight to Italy with his children and pregnant wife – ‘Following in the footsteps of countless European invaders, pilgrims and tourists through the centuries, I was stepping into modern form down the staircase of the Alps into the ever-alluring peninsula of Italy. I descended onto a long, boot-shaped pier9 that jutted out into the Mediterranean, a land nearly surrounded by sea yet large enough to form a major European power whose history, culture and accomplishments are studied and even revered…Italy has long been heart, soul and spiritual center of the western world.’
With this warm manner of writing David takes us on a tour of Italy – both present day and yesteryear – and his technique brings an immediacy to the topics about which he writes. The wonders of Venice, Florence, Siena, Sicily, Verona are painted very well indeed, opening an introduction to the facts about the history of each place and the personalities that populate our memories from studying European history. Significant insights into the Crusades, the Holy Roman Emperors, the artists and sculptors, the architects, writers such as Dante, and even the inspired creations of Romeo and Juliet become visibly real with David’s fine prose. And allowing the reader to identify with contemporary Italy while exploring history is as fine a manner of learning as has been written. History, art, and culture are, after all, people, and Italian people of the present are equally celebrated Of particular note, this book is published during the time when Italy is under lockdown while responding to the coronavirus, a factor that heightens our concern as well as our interest in this excellent volume!
David has created a delightful history lesson and visitation to the luminous land of Italy and her culture. The book educates, entertains, and sings! Highly recommended.
North Carolina author David Cassidy Lundberg, PhD is a retired Air Force officer and university professor, having gained his degrees from the United States Air Force Academy, Boston University and the University of North Carolina. David Lundberg is a fine writer for starters: we know from prior novels that his prose is perky and eloquent at times and always atmospheric and full of momentum. In his book on the history of Ireland we discovered he is also a poet – that book is in the format of poetry. Now David escorts us to Italy, in a manner that is at once entertaining and educational, delivered in a unique style that once again is proof of his plethora of skills as an author.
In this exceptionally fine book David shares his actual travels and time in Italy as a pathway to sharing the glories of that wondrous cradle of civilization. In his introduction, he describes his flight to Italy with his children and pregnant wife – ‘Following in the footsteps of countless European invaders, pilgrims and tourists through the centuries, I was stepping into modern form down the staircase of the Alps into the ever-alluring peninsula of Italy. I descended onto a long, boot-shaped pier9 that jutted out into the Mediterranean, a land nearly surrounded by sea yet large enough to form a major European power whose history, culture and accomplishments are studied and even revered…Italy has long been heart, soul and spiritual center of the western world.’
With this warm manner of writing David takes us on a tour of Italy – both present day and yesteryear – and his technique brings an immediacy to the topics about which he writes. The wonders of Venice, Florence, Siena, Sicily, Verona are painted very well indeed, opening an introduction to the facts about the history of each place and the personalities that populate our memories from studying European history. Significant insights into the Crusades, the Holy Roman Emperors, the artists and sculptors, the architects, writers such as Dante, and even the inspired creations of Romeo and Juliet become visibly real with David’s fine prose. And allowing the reader to identify with contemporary Italy while exploring history is as fine a manner of learning as has been written. History, art, and culture are, after all, people, and Italian people of the present are equally celebrated Of particular note, this book is published during the time when Italy is under lockdown while responding to the coronavirus, a factor that heightens our concern as well as our interest in this excellent volume!
David has created a delightful history lesson and visitation to the luminous land of Italy and her culture. The book educates, entertains, and sings! Highly recommended.
March 25, 2020
This book traces the historical legacies of King Frederick of Sicily and Dante Alighieri. Frederick established the University of Naples. This is the oldest non sectarian university in Europe. I admire Frederick because he had to work with Muslims and Christians in the 13th century. He also helped to resolve a salt conflict between the people of Ravenna and Venice too.
David Lundberg is a visually descriptive writer. I would love to visit the Trevi fountain, the Spanish steps and the Sistine chapel. I would even love to see the tombs in the Pantheon too. These are things that I have only read about in books.
He also lived in Italy for four years working as an Air Force engineer performing health inspections. I am not physically able to join the military This is [the kind of work I would like to do because it sounds both physically and mentally demanding.
The hospitality of the locals and how attractive the women of Italy are would be two other appealing things about Italy. I would visit the country just meet a beautiful woman and drink a brandy cocktail called grappa.
I learned that grazie means thank you and that bella occhi means beautiful eyes. There are more words and phrases in this book, but these two are most useful to me.
This book has no page numbers, so I had to constantly remember where I stopped reading to continue again. This is a minor criticism for a book I enjoyed.
David Lundberg is a visually descriptive writer. I would love to visit the Trevi fountain, the Spanish steps and the Sistine chapel. I would even love to see the tombs in the Pantheon too. These are things that I have only read about in books.
He also lived in Italy for four years working as an Air Force engineer performing health inspections. I am not physically able to join the military This is [the kind of work I would like to do because it sounds both physically and mentally demanding.
The hospitality of the locals and how attractive the women of Italy are would be two other appealing things about Italy. I would visit the country just meet a beautiful woman and drink a brandy cocktail called grappa.
I learned that grazie means thank you and that bella occhi means beautiful eyes. There are more words and phrases in this book, but these two are most useful to me.
This book has no page numbers, so I had to constantly remember where I stopped reading to continue again. This is a minor criticism for a book I enjoyed.
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