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The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria by Marlena De Blasi: Used
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Specificaties
- Objectstaat
- Pages
- 317
- Publication Date
- 2007-01-01
- ISBN
- 9781565124738
- Book Title
- Lady in the Palazzo : at Home in Umbria
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Item Length
- 7.8 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Travel, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, Europe / Italy, Personal Memoirs, General, Customs & Traditions
- Item Weight
- 19.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 4.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 317 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-10
1565124731
ISBN-13
9781565124738
eBay Product ID (ePID)
58622042
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lady in the Palazzo : at Home in Umbria
Number of Pages
317 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Europe / Italy, Personal Memoirs, General, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Travel, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
19.1 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
4.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-045874
Reviews
"[De Blasi's] poetic writing style, her meditative internal monologues, her celebration of traditional foods and her inclusion of a number of recipes from the region, make this a feast for armchair travelers, food enthusiasts, romantics and anyone who enjoys a good story with a happy ending." - Rocky Mount (NC) Telegram
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
945/.652
Table Of Content
Part One: The Next House 1. A Life Lived Well Moves Backward 2. Truth, Hard and Ho, Has Its Pleasures 3. Once in a While, Let Life Shape Itself 4. Life Is Lived in Epochs Part Two: Waiting for a Ballroom 5. That's Umbria Out There 6. Everywhere in Orvieto This Is the Suspicion of Glory 7. Bombastes Is Back in Town 8. Umbria Is Italy Unmingled 9. She Says People Need to Be Together as Much as They Need to Eat 10. Besides, They All Have Something of the Ass about Them, Chou 11. I Preferred One Waltz with a Beauty to a Lifetime with Someone Less Rare 12. Wait until Midnight If You Can 13. Sleep Well and Rise Early to an Exuberance of Bells 14. Most All of Us Abide in Ruins 15. I'd Like to Have Hair the Color of Hot Copper Wires 16. And Be Careful of Edgardo d'Onofrio 17. The Orvietani 18. We're Going to Live in a Ballroom, Fernando. Isn't That the Most Wonderful Thing You Ever Heard? 19. Brahms at Eight O'Clock from Across the Vicolo Part Three: In Via del Duomo 20. Where I Come From, We Invite Our Neighbors and Friends to Supper 21. Black Ties and Party Dresses 22. Would the Lady Be Pleased by a Waltz? The Feast Pan-Sautéed Winter Pears with Pecorino and Walnut Focaccia Umbrichelli with Olivada Leg of Spiced Pork Slow-Braised in Red Wine with Prunes Roasted Chestnut Polenta Brown Sugar Gelato with Caramelized Blood Oranges Warm Sambuca Fritters Acknowledgements
Synopsis
Touching and humorous, Marlena de Blasi's account of moving with her husband, Fernando, to Orvieto, the largest city in Italy's Umbria, is a story that will appeal to anyone who delights in travel and shares the fantasy of beginning a new life in a very different place., 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., 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., Touching and humorous, Marlena de Blasi' s account of moving with her husband, Fernando, to Orvieto, the largest city in Italy' s Umbria, is a story that will appeal to anyone who delights in travel and shares the fantasy of beginning a new life in a very different place. By turns romantic and sensual, joyous and celebratory, it is a tale of the couple' s search for the right home-- which turns out to be the former ballroom of a fifteenth-century palazzo-- and for the right balance in their lives, in this case making friends of cooks, counts, shepherds, and a lone violinist. It is a tale, too, of an American woman finding her niche in a society bound by tradition and seemingly closed to outsiders. With a voice full of wonder, de Blasi brings to life these engagingly quirky people and the aloof, almost daunting society that exists in Umbria. Not since Peter Mayle' s "A Year in Provence" has a writer so happily succeeded in capturing the essence of a singular place and creating a feast for readers of all stripes.
LC Classification Number
DG975.O7D4 2006
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