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Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati
 
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Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati (Paperback)
by Michael Orlando Yaccarino (Author), Scot D. Ryersson (Author), Quentin Crisp (Foreword)
5.0 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Pimlico (5 Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0712667512
  • ISBN-13: 978-0712667517
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 666,818 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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MEREDITH ETHERINGTON-SMITH, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
The ultimate Gothic heroine!

'The fabulous Marchesa Casati was the ultimate Gothic heroine, a bizarre and beautiful figure. Take a leaf out of this book and indulge in a dark and decadent Gothic revival.'

MICHAEL HOLYROYD
A cult figure for the new millennium!

'It is easy to see how the Marchesa Casati could become a cult figure for the new millennium. She has been the subject of poems, plays, films and novels. But what she now demands, based on this book, is a grand opera.'

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Feasting on an Infinite Variety, 4 Oct 2001
By Maggy A. Anthony "Magda" (Reno, Nevada United States) - See all my reviews
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Finally, a biography of one of the most fascinating women of the early 20th century, the Marchesa Luisa Casati.This is an excellent book that lovingly treats its subject and also sets her story in historical perspective.Interwoven are some of the most interesting people in the arts of that time: Diaghlev, Nijinsky, Isadora Duncan ,D'Annunzio and some of the most prominent painters and photographers of the period: Man Ray, Augustus John and many, many others. They, too, were fascinated by the Marchesa and painted and photographed her. Fortunately, most of these works of art are shared with us in a thick section of photos and paintings.
Altogether a feast for the mind, eye and heart.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Pure delight from start to finish, 22 April 2002
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This stylish, perceptive and crisp biography of one of the twentieth century's most complex and controversial figures manages at once to be an intimate portrait and a reflection of an age. It should be a sine qua non in everyone's library.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating biograaphy of a true eccentric, 11 Oct 2000
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