Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven – ‘The Garden of the Finzi Continis’. It came to life in Giorgio Bassani’s 1962 semi-autobiographical novel…

When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world’s richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician,…

The young Claudia wants to escape from the gray life of the province and aims rich men but each time with unhappy results. Only the brother will eventually succeed in…

In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off…