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The Tribulations Behind A Masterpiece
Harold Acton THE MAN ZONI FAMILY by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Marie Evans Carcanet, £12.95 A moderately affluent member of the Milanese squirearchy when Lombardy was under......
Not Inclined To Think Well Of Mankind
Peter Quennell THE EAGLE IN SPLENDOUR: NAPOLEON I AND HIS COURT by Philip Manse' George Philip, f16.95 NAPOLEON'S MARSHALS edited by David C. Chandler Weidenfeld & Nicolson, f25......
The Aristocracy Of England By J. V. Beckett, Reviewed By
Anthony Blond (8 August), is published by Blackwell at £25......