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Overview
“I fell in love with Etruria one chilly evening in January. They were having a New Year’s Eve festival in a little town near Campagnano, and a group of local boys dressed in Renaissance costumes were marching in a torchlight parade down the main street. As I stood there in the cold watching the flames lurching to the sky, I realized that I felt very much at home in this ancient place.”Thirty years ago Joan Marble and her sculptor husband bought a piece of unpromising land in Lazio, the area north of Rome that was home to the ancient Etruscans. They built a house and grew a wonderful garden. This the story of their life there, of the unexpected friends who helped them, and of their conquest of an intransigent landscape.
Book Details
Published
May 1, 2001
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780552998413