Declan Ryan

Shirley Hazzard – so in love with Italy she spoke in arias

Hazzard’s spiritual awakening on reading Leopardi’s poems and first seeing the Bay of Naples led to a lifelong passion for her adopted country

Shirley Hazzard in Rome in 2005. [Alamy]
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    Virago, pp. 576, £25

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