Tuscany in mind : an anthology /
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| Imprint: | New York : Vintage Books, 2005. |
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| Description: | xxvi, 371 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Vintage departures |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5647170 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Excerpt from A Tuscan Childhood
- Aulla, The Tuscan kitchen and market
- Excerpt from Boswell on the Grand Tour
- Florence and Siena, The women of Florence and Siena
- "Bianca Among the Nightingales" Italian nationalism
- "Old Pictures in Florence" Florence, Art
- "Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa" Florence and Pisa, Reflections on youth
- Excerpt from Anatomy of Restlessness
- Arno Valley, Writing in Tuscany
- Excerpt from Any Four Women Could Rob the Bank of Italy
- San Felice, The Tuscan character
- Excerpt from Pictures from Italy
- Spezia, Pisa, and Siena, Nineteenth-century travel
- Excerpt from The Birth of Venus
- Florence, Patron of the arts
- "Canti Toscani" Volterra, Lucca, Pisa, and Florence, Impressions of Tuscany
- Excerpt from Innocence
- The countryside outside of Florence, The villa
- Excerpt from Where Angels Fear to Tread
- Monteriano modeled on San Gimignano, Victorians in Italy
- Excerpt from An Italian Affair
- Florence, Heartbreak in Tuscany
- Excerpt from A Garden in Lucca
- Lucca, The garden and the trattoria
- Excerpt from Italian Days
- San Gimignano, The religious and the secular
- Excerpt from The Sixteen Pleasures
- Florence, Art restoration
- Excerpt from Indian Summer
- Florence, Carnival
- Excerpt from Confidence
- Siena, Love and art
- "Ritratto" Florence, Italian men
- Excerpt from Etruscan Places
- Volterra, Etruscan ruins
- Excerpt from In Maremma
- Maremma, Italian bureaucracy
- "Florence" Florence, Dedicated to Mary McCarthy
- Excerpt from Under the Tuscan Sun
- Cortona, Buying a house in Tuscany
- Excerpt from The Stones of Florence
- Florence, Summer in Florence
- Excerpt from A Traveller in Italy
- Monterchi, Sansepolcro, Anghiari, Poppi, and Rassina, Exploring the hill towns
- Excerpt from A Small Place in Italy
- Fosdinovo, Easter
- Excerpt from Images and Shadows
- Val d'Orcia, Farming
- "Tuscan Cypresses"
- Excerpt from The Tuscan Year
- The border between Tuscany and Umbria, A wedding
- Excerpt from Mornings in Florence
- Florence, Giotto
- Excerpt from Travel Writing
- Florence, Observations on government and the economy
- Excerpt from The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Florence, "Paradise of Exiles"
- Excerpt from Italy: The Places in Between
- Lucca, A walking tour
- Excerpt from Travels through France and Italy
- Pisa, Florence, and Siena, Eighteenth-century tourism
- Excerpt from Within Tuscany
- Florence and Siena, Childbirth and childrearing
- "Grandparents" Florence, On becoming a grandparent in Florence
- Excerpt from The Innocents Abroad
- Florence and Pisa, Nineteenth-century tourism
- Excerpt from The Custom of the Country
- The countryside outside of Siena, Newlyweds in Tuscany
