Lady in the Palazzo An Umbrian Love Story

Name: Lady in the Palazzo An Umbrian Love Story
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ISBN: 9781565126107

ISBN-10: 1565126106

ISBN-13: 9781565126107

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Authors: Marlena de Blasi, Marlena de Blasi

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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…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 5/27/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 317
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.19" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




The Next House



A Life Lived Well Moves Backward



Truth, Hard and Hot, Has Its Pleasures



Once in a While, Let Life Shape Itself



Life Is Lived in Epochs



Waiting for a Ballroom



That's Umbria Out There



Everywhere in Orvieto There Is the Suspicion of Glory



Bombastes Is Back in Town



Umbria Is Italy Unmingled



She Says People Need to Be Together as Much as They Need to Eat



Besides, They All Have Something of the Ass about Them, Chou



I Preferred One Waltz with a Beauty to a Lifetime with Someone Less Rare



Wait until Midnight If You Can



Sleep Well and Rise Early to an Exuberance of Bells



Most All of Us Abide in Ruins



I'd Like to Have Hair the Color of Hot Copper Wires



And Be Careful of Edgardo d'Onofrio



The Orvietani



We're Going to Live in a Ballroom, Fernando. Isn't That the Most Wonderful Thing You Ever Heard?



Brahms at Eight O'Clock from Across the Vicolo



In Via del Duomo



Where I Come From, We Invite Our Neighbors and Friends to Supper



Black Ties and Pretty Dresses



Would the Lady Be Pleased by a Waltz?


The Jeast


Pan-Sauteed 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


Acknowledgments