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In this sequel to her New York Times bestsellers Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany , the celebrated "bard of Tuscany" ( New York Times ) lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-long love affair with Tuscany's people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle.   Frances Mayes offers her... read more

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  • “Not all of me shall die.”
  • “In life, whethere you meet your aspirations or not, the only important thing is the passionate interest, that true-north needle keeping you focused.”
  • “Who would not be happy, this far in the country? Happiness, what an elusive elf, how to hold happiness, how to find it, how to live inside a great happiness of your own making? The Sustainability of Happiness—some philosopher should write a treatise. Maybe it would be very long, or perhaps it would be only a few sentences.”
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  • SINCE A LARGE percentage of control over fate doesn’t exist, how to go forward? Cultivate interior life as though it were a garden sanctuary. Give away what you can. Squander your love.
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  • William Sloane Coffin’s soaring belief. “I love the recklessness of faith,” he said. “First you jump, then you grow wings.”
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  • PASTA AL FORNO CON SALSICCE E QUATTRO FORMAGGI Baked Pasta with Sausage and Four Cheeses
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  • It is paradoxical but true that something that takes you out of yourself also restores you to yourself with a greater freedom. A passionate interest also has a true-north needle that keeps you focused.
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  • If I were moving to Italy today, I might choose to live in the Marche. The region is studded with unspoiled villages and luscious countryside. There may not be a more divine piazza than in Ascoli Piceno.
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  • TORTA DI SUSINE CON MANDORLE Plum Tart
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  • ZUPPA DI CAVOLO NERO, CANNELLINI, E SALSICCE Kale, White Bean, and Sausage Soup
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  • Basho’s pithy sentence, passed on from the seventeenth century: The journey itself is home.
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  • One’s destination is never a place but a new way of looking at things. —HENRY MILLER
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  • Living well in time means taking back time from the slave-masters—obligations, appointments, the dreary round of details that attach like leeches in a stagnant pond. During intense periods of work, restoration projects, family crises, health scares, I want to wake up at first light, pull on hiking boots, and set off for an hour while the birds are still practicing their doxologies. Wasted hours—they were mine; I meant to use them before they slipped through the hourglass.
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First Sentence edit see section history

In winter-cold blue light, the bells of Cortona ring louder.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Introduction: The White Road

Part 1: Winter into Spring
Buongiorno, Luca
Andiamo a Casa - Let's Go Home
A House Flying
Bramasole
The White Vespa
After
Bring Me the Sunflower Crazed with Light

Part 2: Summer into Fall
Orto and Oven
Vine Yard
Gite Al Mare - Little Trips to the Sea
Circles on My Map - Umbria and Beyond
Signorelli's Bones
Amici - Friends
The Signoreli Trail
Citta' Di Castello
August Begins
Mangia, Wiollia, Mangia - Eat, Willie, Eat
Since the Etruscans
A Larger Freedom
100 Jars of Summer Sun
Praying for the Queen of Hearts
Permission for the New
Envoi - Fox Song

Notes
Bibliography

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Frances Mayes (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Broadway Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 0767929829
Page Count: 320

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