Now aged 65, his best-known novel here, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (about the doomed Jews of Ferrara) was filmed bv Vittorio de Sica. Paul Bailey reflects that the melancholy that informs Bassani's fiction is of the sane, inspiritive kind.
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Now aged 65, his best-known novel here, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (about the doomed Jews of Ferrara) was filmed bv Vittorio de Sica. Paul Bailey reflects that the melancholy that informs Bassani's fiction is of the sane, inspiritive kind.
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