Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Telemaco Signorini, Silvestro Lega and Giuseppe De Nittis. An English novelist takes a villa in the Italian lakes to write, and finds his neighbor is a duchess, his gardener's daughter is not what she seems, and the local cardinal has a snuff-box and an eye for a plot. Harland edited The Yellow Book, the quarterly that defined the 1890s and then buried them; this sunlit comedy was his bestseller and the opposite of everything he had published. Sixty plates of Italian garden and lakeside scenes by painters including Giovanni Segantini and Giuseppe De Nittis, 1850 to 1924, mirror the sunlit world of the novel.