A sabbatical from teaching in San Francisco allowed her to return to Cortona-and her beloved house, Bramasole-just as the first green appeared on the rocky hillsides.īella Tuscany, a companion volume to Under the Tuscan Sun, is her passionate and lyrical account of her continuing love affair with Italy. Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to experience the pleasures of primavera, an Italian spring. Surges of energy, kaleidoscopic sunlight through the leaves, the soft breeze that makes me want to say the word "zephyr"-this mindless simplicity can be called happiness. Working in the mild sun, I feel the green fuse of my body, too. The regenerative power of nature explodes in every weed, stalk, branch. That color, the glowing green lizard skin, repeats in every new leaf. Happiness? The color of it must be spring green, impossible to describe until I see a just-hatched lizard sunning on a stone.
An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found here.įrances Mayes invites us back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food there and throughout Italy.įrances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites us back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food there and throughout Italy.
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