Tuscany in mind
Subtitle: an anthology
By: edited and with an introduction by Alice Leccese Powers.
Contributors: Powers, Alice Leccese.
Series: Vintage departures
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
Subjects: English literature.; Americans -- Italy -- Tuscany.; British -- Italy -- Tuscany.; American literature.; Tuscany (Italy) -- Literary collections.; Tuscany (Italy) -- Description and travel.
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: In her fourth literary travel companion, Alice Leccese Powers explores one of the most seductive regions of the world through more than two centuries of fiction, poetry, essays, letters, and memoirs by English-speaking visitors to northern Italy. The poet Shelley called Tuscany a paradise of exiles; it has long been a magnet for literary travelers and expatriates. Here are writers who have made their home in Tuscan villas, castles, and farmhouses, from the Shelleys, Byron, and the Brownings to Frances Mayes. Here too are Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Henry James, and E. M. Forster on the glories of Florence, Pisa's leaning tower, and the enchanting Tuscan countryside, alongside the tart wit of Mark Twain, Mary McCarthy, and Erica Jong. From James Boswell's record of his romantic dalliances to Laura Fraser's memoir An Italian Affair to Sarah Dunant's novel The Birth of Venus, Tuscany in Mind assembles a glittering mosaic portrait of an unforgettable place.
Notes: "A Vintage departures original"--T.p. verso.