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The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria Hardcover - 2007
by de Blasi, Marlena
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- Title The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria
- Author de Blasi, Marlena
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Condition Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- Pages 317
- Language ENG
- Publisher Algonquin Books of Chapel Hi, Chapel Hill, NC
- Date 2007
- Bookseller's Inventory # BOOKS068518I
- ISBN 9781565124738
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Summary
Marlena di Blasi seduced readers to fall in love with Venice, then Tuscany, with her popular and critically acclaimed books A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany. Now she takes readers on a journey into the heart of Orvieto, an ancient city in the less-trodden region of Umbria. Rich with history and a vivid sense of place, her tale is by turns romantic and sensual, joyous and celebratory, as she and her husband search for a home in this city on a hill—finding one that turns out to be the former ballroom of a dilapidated sixteenth-century palazzo. Along the way, de Blasi befriends an array of colorful characters, including cooks and counts and shepherds and a lone violinist, cooking her way into the hearts of her Umbrian neighbors.Brimming with life and kissed by romance, The Lady in the Palazzo perfectly captures the essence of a singular place and offers up a feast—and the recipes to prepare it!—for readers of all stripes.