An edition of In Maremma (2001)
In Maremma
life and a house in Southern Tuscany
By David Leavitt,Mark Mitchell,Mark G. Mitchell
Publish Date
2001
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
Language
eng
Pages
160
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.