TY - BOOK AU - Leon,Donna TI - My Venice and other essays T2 - Thorndike Press large print nonfiction SN - 1410467236 (hardcover) PY - 2014/// CY - Waterville, Maine PB - Thorndike Press KW - Leon, Donna KW - Americans KW - Italy KW - Venice KW - Biography KW - Large type books N1 - On Venice -- On music -- On mankind and animals -- On men -- On America -- On books N2 - For many years Donna Leon, acclaimed for her bestselling mystery series featuring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti, has written essays for European publications. Collected here are over fifty of her best: funny, charming, passionate, and insightful essays in which she shares episodes from her life in Venice, her love of opera, tales from in and around her country house in the mountains, and offers observations on the idea of the Italian man ER -