In the best tradition of foreign writers enamored of the radiance and splendor of Italy, Frances Mayes once more regales the reader with a fresh and charming tribute to the lovely hills and people of Tuscany. She makes us love the regions, the sea, the landscapes, cities, and the magnificent churches of that most beautiful country. Her new book if also a work of genuine significance about the Renaissance paintings of Luca Signorelli of the old city of Cortona, which Mayes contemplates from high above the hills in her beloved house of Bramasole. How lucky the author is to live in such an ideal retreat and to have achieved enjoyable relationships with the people in her surroundings. He shares with us her pleasurable and creative and full life and ruminating serene in the face of realities including a leaking roof, plumbing repairs, the invasion of cinguibali, and the frightening, unexpected threat of a hand grenade that interrupts her husband's birthday party. To be loved for is graceful finely wrought prose this is in fact a tender scrapbook of images! Life and native years in her Georgia USA where the taste of her old cook Willie Ball's iced tea is cherished and sweet and the many delicious foods and wines of Tuscany. Very generously the writer also shares with us several authentic recipes of superb authentic Italian cuisine, although she adds her own special take to them. Auguri!
-- Editorial guidance by Agatha Zeilinger, Ph.D.
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