In Maremma
Subtitle: Life and a House in Southern Tuscany
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781582437774
Subjects: Italy, description and travel; Italy, social life and customs
Description: Now with stunning illustrations and color photographs, this newly expanded edition of In Maremma recounts David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell's restoration of a dilapidated 1950s farmhouse in southern Tuscany. Beautifully written, witty, and concise, it recounts the process by which they became initiated into a part of Italian life foreigners rarely see. The pleasures of the olive harvest and picking wild asparagus are juxtaposed with the vagaries of political corruption and self-perpetuating bureaucracy. Landscape and weather provide the stuff of reverie, as do the benefits of boredom and the lon.