Under the Tuscan sun at home in Italy

The poet and travel writer describes her experiences in Tuscany during the restoration of her countryside villa.

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Main Author: Mayes, Frances (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Broadway Books 1998
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Bramare: (archaic) to yearn for
  • A house and the land it takes two oxen two days to plow
  • Sister water, brother fire
  • The wild orchard
  • Whir of the sun
  • Festina Tarde (make haste slowly)
  • A long table under the trees
  • Summer kitchen notes
  • Cortona, noble city
  • Rive, Maremma: into wildest Tuscany
  • Turning Italian
  • Green oil
  • Floating world: a Winter season
  • Winter kitchen notes
  • Rose walk
  • Sempre pietra (always stone)
  • Relics of Summer
  • Solleone.