Seven Seasons in Siena My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance among Tuscany's Proudest People

Name: Seven Seasons in Siena My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance among Tuscany's Proudest People
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ISBN: 9780345521057

ISBN-10: 0345521056

ISBN-13: 9780345521057

Edition: 2011

Authors: Robert Rodi

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Siena seems at first glance a typical Italian city: within its venerable medieval walls the citizens sport designer clothes, wield digital phones, and prize their dazzling local cuisine. But unlike neighboring Florence, Siena is still deeply rooted in ancient traditions-chiefly the spectacular Palio, in which seventeen independent societies known as contradevie for bragging rights in an annual bareback horse race around the central piazza. Into this strange, closed world steps Robert Rodi. A Chicago writer with few friends in town and a shaky command of conversational Italian, he couldn#x19;t be more out of place. Yet something about the sense of belonging radiating from the ritual-obsessed…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/21/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English