Author: Smith, Patrick:
Title: A Desk In Rome.
Description: London, Collins, 1974 1st Ed., H/B blue cloth bds, VG+, unclipped d/w, almost VG, sl. furled at edges, two small closed tears at top edge, contents clean and tight. As the BBC foreign correspondent in Rome, the author writes of some of the fascinating events he has witnessed, for example, of social work among the Mafia; of the time Pope Pius XII had a 'vision' because his oculist prescribed the wrong glasses; of debates in the Italian Parliament about what to do with the busts of mussolini etc...

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