num_pages: 317
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria
titlecomplete: The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria
genres: Italian Literature, Travel, Italy, Foodie, Food, Biography Memoir, Biography, Romance, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1547
places: Italy, Umbria, Orvieto
series: Italian Memoirs
publisher: Algonquin Books