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The roundup – Dear Verbeek, Dutch author, reconstructs a phantasmagoric nasal odyssey: for the ancients it was beautiful if pronounced, then everything changed
February 13, 2024
“A TV presenter once announced me like this, ‘a woman with great flair’”, writes Caro Verbeek, Dutch author of this surprising book just published in Italy by Il Saggiatore. It’s called On the Nose. A cultural history: or rather, we are faced with a phantasmagoric nasal odyssey. Aesthetic standards change over time […]