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Sex And The Old Maestro

Fiona Maddocks THE LETTERS OF ARTURO TOSCANINI compiled, edited and translated by Harvey Sachs Faber, £30, pp. 468, ISBN 0571196292 W hatever is meant by 'middle age' (around 60......

The Randolph Churchill Of Italy

David Gilmour FRANCESCO CRISP! by Christopher Duggan OUP, 175, pp. 777, ISBN 0198206119 F rancesco Crispi is the neglected Titan of the Risorgimento. Every Italian town seems to......

Bend Sinister In The River

Charlotte Moore KENTUCKY BLUES by Derek Robinson Cassell, £16.99, pp. 520, ISBN 0304361828 G eography makes history, claims Derek Robinson's big, rich, 19th-century saga. The......