Giorgio van Straten Giorgio van Straten Giorgio van Straten (born 1955) is an Italian writer and manager of arts organizations. His first novel "Generazione" was published in 1987. In 2000 he won four literary prizes for "Il mio nome a memoria", published in English as "My Name, A Living Memory" (2003), the story of his Jewish-Dutch family from 1811 to our days. That same year he was awarded the Grand Official Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. He translated from English into Italian "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Giunti, 1992),"The Call of the Wild" by Jack London (Giunti, 1994),"The Jungle
The Lost Prince (Burnett novel) The Lost Prince (Burnett novel) The Lost Prince is a novel by British-American author Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published in 1915. This book is about Marco Loristan, his father, and his friend, a street urchin called "The Rat". Marco's father, Stefan, is a Samavian patriot working to overthrow the cruel dictatorship in the kingdom of Samavia. Marco and his father come to London where Marco strikes up a friendship with a crippled street urchin known as The Rat. The friendship occurs when Marco overhears The Rat shouting in military form. Marco discovers he had stumbled upon a club known as