A Tuscan Childhood

Author : Kinta Beevor
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780228655

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A Tuscan Childhood by Kinta Beevor Pdf

'Wonderful ... I fell immediately into her world' Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun Kinta Beevor was five years old when she fell in love with her parents' castle facing the Carrara mountains. She and her brother ran barefoot, exploring an enchanted world. They searched for wild mushrooms in the hills with Fiore the stonemason, and learned how to tickle trout. The freedom and beauty of life at the castle attracted poets, writers and painters, including D.H. Lawrence and Rex Whistler. The other side to Kinta's childhood was very different, for it was spent with her formidable great aunt, Janet Ross, in a grand villa outside Florence. But soon the old way of life and Kinta's idyllic world were threatened by war. Nostalgic, yet unsentimental and funny, A TUSCAN CHILDHOOD is a book which transports the reader to bohemian, aristocratic Italy and the sound of bells from a distant campanile.

Author : Lisi Cecilia Cipriani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Cats
ISBN : UOM:39015063884475

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A Tuscan Childhood by Lisi Cecilia Cipriani Pdf

Author : Lisi Cipriani
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016661819

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A Tuscan Childhood by Lisi Cipriani Pdf

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Author : Cipriani Lisi Cecilia,Century Company Pbl,De Vinne Press Prt
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1348231769

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A Tuscan Childhood by Cipriani Lisi Cecilia,Century Company Pbl,De Vinne Press Prt Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Frances Mayes
Publisher : Crown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780767916301

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Bella Tuscany by Frances Mayes Pdf

Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy. Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to experience the pleasures of primavera, an Italian spring. A sabbatical from teaching in San Francisco allowed her to return to Cortona—and her beloved house, Bramasole—just as the first green appeared on the rocky hillsides. Bella Tuscany, a companion volume to Under the Tuscan Sun, is her passionate and lyrical account of her continuing love affair with Italy. Now truly at home there, Mayes writes of her deepening connection to the land, her flourishing friendships with local people, the joys of art, food, and wine, and the rewards and occasional heartbreaks of her villa's ongoing restoration. It is also a memoir of a season of change, and of renewed possibility. As spring becomes summer she revives Bramasole's lush gardens, meets the challenges of learning a new language, tours regions from Sicily to the Veneto, and faces transitions in her family life. Filled with recipes from her Tuscan kitchen and written in the sensuous and evocative prose that has become her hallmark, Bella Tuscany is a celebration of the sweet life in Italy. Now with an excerpt from Frances Mayes's latest southern memoir, Under Magnolia.

Author : Ben Downing
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429942959

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Queen Bee of Tuscany by Ben Downing Pdf

"Quite simply one of the best books of the year." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Ben Downing's Queen Bee of Tuscany brings an extraordinary Victorian back to life. Born into a distinguished intellectual family and raised among luminaries such as Dickens and Thackeray, Janet Ross married at eighteen and went to live in Egypt. There, for the next six years, she wrote for the London Times, hobnobbed with the developer of the Suez Canal, and humiliated pashas in horse races. In 1867 she moved to Florence, Italy where she spent the remaining sixty years of her life writing a series of books and hosting a colorful miscellany of friends and neighbors, from Mark Twain to Bernard Berenson, at Poggio Gherardo, her house in the hills above the city. Eventually she became the acknowledged doyenne of the Anglo-Florentine colony, as it was known. Yet she was also immersed in the rural life of Tuscany: An avid agriculturalist, she closely supervised the farms on her estate and the sharecroppers who worked them, often pitching in on grape and olive harvests. Spirited, erudite, and supremely well-connected, Ross was one of the most dynamic women of her day. Her life offers a fascinating window on fascinating times, from the Risorgimento to the rise of fascism. Encompassing all this rich history, Queen Bee of Tuscany is a panoramic portrait of an age, a family, and our evolving love affair with Tuscany. A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2013

Author : Frances Mayes
Publisher : Crown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780767917452

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Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane—now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword “This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house and, always, the pleasures of food, would make a perfect gift for a loved one. But it’s so delicious, read it first yourself.”—USA Today For more Frances Mayes, including a tour of her now iconic Cortona home, Bramasole, watch PBS’s Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special! More than twenty years ago, Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeys—whether that be flying to a foreign country in search of themselves, savoring one of the book’s dozens of delicious seasonal recipes, or simply being transported by Mayes’s signature evocative, sensory language. Now with a new afterword from Frances Mayes, the twentieth-anniversary edition of Under the Tuscan Sun revisits the book’s most popular characters.

Author : Karen Aldous
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008239145

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Under a Tuscan Sky by Karen Aldous Pdf

‘A sumptuous story.’ Rachel’s Random Reads (top 500 Amazon reviewer) Escape to Tuscany this summer with Karen Aldous’s brilliantly uplifting read. A summer she’ll never forget...

Author : Frances Mayes
Publisher : Crown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307885920

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Under Magnolia by Frances Mayes Pdf

A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region’s powerful influence on her life. The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style and grace, Mayes explores the power of landscape, the idea of home, and the lasting force of a chaotic and loving family. From her years as a spirited, secretive child, through her university studies—a period of exquisite freedom that imbued her with a profound appreciation of friendship and a love of travel—to her escape to a new life in California, Mayes exuberantly recreates the intense relationships of her past, recounting the bitter and sweet stories of her complicated family: her beautiful yet fragile mother, Frankye; her unpredictable father, Garbert; Daddy Jack, whose life Garbert saved; grandmother Mother Mayes; and the family maid, Frances’s confidant Willie Bell. Under Magnolia is a searingly honest, humorous, and moving ode to family and place, and a thoughtful meditation on the ways they define us, or cause us to define ourselves. With acute sensory language, Mayes relishes the sweetness of the South, the smells and tastes at her family table, the fragrance of her hometown trees, and writes an unforgettable story of a girl whose perspicacity and dawning self-knowledge lead her out of the South and into the rest of the world, and then to a profound return home.

Author : Dario Castagno,Robert Rodi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762751617

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Too Much Tuscan Sun by Dario Castagno,Robert Rodi Pdf

Over the past several years, "the American in Tuscany" has become a literary subgenre. Launched by the phenomenal success of Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun, bookstores now burgeon with nimble, witty accounts of this clash in cultures-Americans trying to do American things in Italy and bumping against a brick wall of tradition. Too Much Tuscan Sun is Dario's, a Tuscan guide whose client base is predominantly American, account of some of his more remarkable customers, from the obsessive and the oblivious to the downright lunatic.

Author : Rhys Bowen
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 1503951812

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The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen Pdf

Thirty years after her British bomber pilot father parachuted from his stricken plane into German-occupied Tuscany, Joanna embarks on a healing journey to learn about her father's hidden wartime past.

Author : Welleda Muller
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443892773

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The Representations of Elderly People in the Scenes of Jesus’ Childhood in Tuscan Paintings, 14th-16th Centuries by Welleda Muller Pdf

This book is the result of a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max Planck Institute) in Florence, Italy, in collaboration with the MaxNetAging Research School in Rostock, Germany. Adopting an innovative approach, it leads the reader through early modern Tuscan paintings to discover a new vision of intergenerational relationships. By studying both the images of elderly people in the scenes of Jesus’ Childhood and the primary sources dealing with old age, the book reveals how old age was perceived at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance in Tuscany.

Author : Marlena de Blasi
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780345481092

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A Thousand Days in Tuscany by Marlena de Blasi Pdf

They had met and married on perilously short acquaintance, she an American chef and food writer, he a Venetian banker. Now they were taking another audacious leap, unstitching their ties with exquisite Venice to live in a roughly renovated stable in Tuscany. Once again, it was love at first sight. Love for the timeless countryside and the ancient village of San Casciano dei Bagni, for the local vintage and the magnificent cooking, for the Tuscan sky and the friendly church bells. Love especially for old Barlozzo, the village mago, who escorts the newcomers to Tuscany’s seasonal festivals; gives them roasted country bread drizzled with just-pressed olive oil; invites them to gather chestnuts, harvest grapes, hunt truffles; and teaches them to caress the simple pleasures of each precious day. It’s Barlozzo who guides them across the minefields of village history and into the warm and fiercely beating heart of love itself. A Thousand Days in Tuscany is set in one of the most beautiful places on earth–and tucked into its fragrant corners are luscious recipes (including one for the only true bruschetta) directly from the author’s private collection.

Author : Christiane Klapisch-Zuber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1987-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226439266

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Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber Pdf

English translations of the author's most important articles.

Author : Wendy McClure
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781594485688

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The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure Pdf

A pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession will make this a sure favorite.