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Isola Maggiore  –  Trasimeno Lake

History, economics and art

( Bilingual book : english and italian )

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Cover of the book

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This book is edited by Ermanno GAMBINI and Mirko SANTANICCHIA  those who have already written the storic and artistic guide of Isola Maggiore.

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I have already said that to come on the Isola Maggiore is equivalent to traveling in time past.

Thanks to the older photos, I regard, in a previous article, a journey of one small century back.

But this book is much more ambitious.

There is a comprehensive presentation of elderly life from the 12th century.

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The subject of the book and its quality

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Click below to continue – Clicca sotto per il seguito – Cliquez ci-dessous pour la suite

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Index of the book

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Written by academics, this book gives you access to a true knowledge of the history of the island, of his life day by day, and of his principal activity, fishing.

And art is not forgotten.

An external museale tour is also proposed.

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The exceptional illustrations

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The book contains 61 boards very explicit by Donato Spedaliere ( for additional information concerning Donato).

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Donato Spedaliere and his wife Sarah Sulemsohn, at the Visitor Center of the island, where there are so many of its boards ...

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These so realistic and reliable plates let return really in the past and imagine this past.

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Room "Matteo Dall'Isola" of the Visitor Center where many drawings of Donato Spedaliere are exposed

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A single example of the talent of Donato Spedaliere : the plate representing the effects, along the present via Guglielmi, of the great flood of the Trasimeno Lake between XV and XIX century.

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Flooding along the present Via Guglielmi (between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries). Copyright : plate by Donato Spedaliere

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Conclusion

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It is impossible to truly understand and fully appreciate

 the Isola Maggiore

without having read this book !

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It is sold to the Visitor Center of Isola Maggiore

10 euros

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