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Morandi Returns to EarthAn Italian master at the Met.

By Christopher BenfeyPosted Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008, at 11:37 AM ET

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Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, about writers and artists in Gilded Age America, has just been published by the Penguin Press.
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