01933cam a2200337 i 4500 606156021 TxAuBib 20230110120000.0 220429s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022019611 9781646052004 PAP 17.95 1646052005 PAP 17.95 TxAuBib rda Small Staid, Mairead, author Traces. The traces [BOOK] : an essay / Mairead Small Staid. Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum, [2022] 189 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Cities & memory -- Cities & desire -- Cities & signs -- Thin cities -- Trading cities -- Cities & eyes -- Cities & names -- Cities & the dead -- Cities & the sky -- Continuous cities -- Hidden cities. Mairead Small Staid's debut, The Traces is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her. Traveling from Florence to Rome to Capri, The Traces draws on the fields of physics, history, architecture, and cartography, spurred by thinkers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Cesare Pavese and Anne Carson. Provided by publisher. 20230110. Small Staid, Mairead Travel Italy. Calvino, Italo Città invisibili. Cities and towns Italy. Happiness. Happiness in literature. Travel writing. Italy Description and travel.