{"product_id":"9780985228101","title":"The Italian Pleasures Of Gabriele Paterkallos","description":"Gabriele Paterkallos, a young American poet of Greco-Italian descent, is visiting Rome to have his first poetry collection published as well to travel throughout Italy. During his Italian sojourn, he exchanges a series of letters with the self-exiled American novelist residing in Paris, Odysseus Pane, a few years his senior, and a bit more established within literary circles. \u003cp\u003eThe letters - Gabriele's private musings upon life, literature and beauty - are highly personal, yet still retain a unique universality about them. Indeed, many letters read as a passionate paean to Italy's timeless beauty redolent of a 19th century nobleman detailing the sights of his Italian Grand Tour.\u003cbr\u003eGabriele is an arch-Romantic to the core positioning himself against the prevailing mores of the modern world. One seems to vacillate between intense feelings of revulsion, attraction, and even pity for Gabriele; not knowing whether to renounce him entirely or to fall deeply in love with him; and even those who have come to despise him find his broody, mysterious persona quite irresistible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aesthete Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013894521072,"sku":"9780985228101","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780985228101_p0.jpg?v=1763883451","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780985228101","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}