{"id":10860,"date":"2019-05-08T15:10:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=10860"},"modified":"2019-05-08T15:10:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T19:10:05","slug":"levy-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/levy-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcement | Allison Levy &amp; House of Secrets International Book Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/05\/Levy_About-the-Author-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/05\/Levy_About-the-Author-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/05\/Levy_About-the-Author.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Allison Levy, the Library&#8217;s Digital Scholarship Editor and Visiting Scholar in Italian Studies at Brown, is the author of a new book, <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofsecretsbook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo<\/a><\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2019), currently being promoted through the U.S. and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book has been well received by critics and readers. Historian Ingrid Rowland describes it as &#8220;an enthralling tour through an extraordinary Florentine palazzo, complete with romance, murder, lives of the rich and famous, and layer upon layer of history ranging from the heart of the Renaissance to yesterday. A scholarly thriller that is virtually impossible to put down.&#8221;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Allison Levy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>An art historian educated at Bryn Mawr College, Allison tells the remarkable story of Palazzo Rucellai from behind its celebrated fa\u00e7ade in <em>House of Secrets<\/em>. While staying in Florence during a teaching sabbatical, Allison had the opportunity to live in Palazzo Rucellai and learn about its history firsthand, becoming inspired to tell the stories of the real life characters who have populated the house and bring its history to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"697\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/01\/House-of-Secrets-Cover-697x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/01\/House-of-Secrets-Cover-697x1024.jpg 697w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/01\/House-of-Secrets-Cover-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/01\/House-of-Secrets-Cover.jpg 1866w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming tour events:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Seattle: University of Washington Bookstore<\/li><li>New Orleans: Garden District Bookstore<\/li><li>Boston: Boston Public Library<\/li><li>Detroit: Pages Bookshop<\/li><li>Newport: Redwood Library and Athenaeum<\/li><li>Providence: Books on the Square<\/li><li>Washington, DC: Kramer Books<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Completed tour events:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>London: Daunt Books<\/li><li>Florence: Todo Modo Bookstore<\/li><li>NYC: Casa Italiana-NYU (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ahOj92tjmos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"video (opens in a new tab)\">video<\/a>)<\/li><li>Providence: Brown University Library (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=3&amp;v=JAEvy7365vg\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>)<\/li><li>Providence: Providence Athenaeum (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/pvdath\/houseofsecrets?mc_cid=5882672c7b&amp;mc_eid=06d887f050\" target=\"_blank\">audio<\/a>)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Next year, Allison will visit China to promote the book, after its translation into Chinese this year. The English paperback edition of <em>House of Secrets<\/em> will be published April 2020. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Levy, the Library&#8217;s Digital Scholarship Editor and Visiting Scholar in Italian Studies at Brown, is the author of a new book, House of Secrets: The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo (Bloomsbury, 2019), currently being promoted through the U.S. and abroad. The book has been well received by critics and readers. Historian Ingrid Rowland <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/levy-tour\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Announcement | Allison Levy &amp; House of Secrets International Book Tour<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,155,16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events","category-home-page","category-publications","category-staff-transitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}