About the Cover Illustration

The figure on the cover of Entity Framework 4.0 in Action is captioned “Limonaro,” or a vendor of lemons. The illustration is taken from a collection of Italian Fine Arts, Prints, and Photographs that includes hand-colored drawings of Italian regional dress costumes from the nineteenth century. Wearing a white linen shirt, blue breeches, and a wide-brimmed straw hat, and carrying a basket of lemons in one hand and a jug of lemonade in the other, the itinerant limonaro was a welcome figure in the streets of Italian towns and villages, especially in the hot summer weather.

The diversity of the drawings in the collection speaks vividly of the uniqueness and individuality of the world’s towns and provinces just 200 ...

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