The Mill on the Po: God Save You (Book One) Folk & Fairy This book deserves careful attention

This book deserves careful attention because its subject—the truth about what it means to be human—remains an essential part of the human experience

Gertrud von Le Fort (1876–1971) was a German novelist

the philosophical structure of his literary world—the “metaphysic of love”

which escapes the deterministic science of cause and effect

and persuasive presentation of orthodoxy

The Mill on the Po: God Save You (Book One) Folk & Fairy This book deserves careful attentionBy Riccardo Bacchelli The Mill on the Po: God Save You The Mill on the Po trilogy tells of the birth of Italy as a nation; its central figures are Lazzaro Scacerni and his family, their mill on the river Po, and the river itselfstately, savage, source of both life and death. God Save You begins in the convulsive final years of the Napoleonic Wars. For a solitary act of heroism, Lazzaro Scacerni receives a treasure of pillaged jewels and establishes