A Valley in Italy: Confessions of a House Addict - Softcover

St. Aubin De Teran, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140168869 ISBN 13: 9780140168860

Publisher: Penguin, 1995

Synopsis

Tracing a year in the life of an Umbrian village, this book shifts month by month through the seasons and the social rites of people. Side by side with the celebrations of particular saints' days, the accompanying banquets, the dances, processions and the cultivation of the land upon which the area has long depended, the author describes the restoration of the huge, dilapidated palazzo she and her family occupy. Between the purchase of the villa and her daughters's wedding party a year later, there is an account of life in Umbria as it is lived by the Italians. This proceeds from the last weeks of February and March when the vines are pruned, through the sowing of the tobacco plants, capsicum peppers, sunflowers and corn and their harvest in October. Then there is the gathering of the olives and chestnuts which takes place before the winter feasts set in, followed by the bitter but beautiful winter, when so many villagers are unemployed until the farming begins again.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0140168869
• ISBN 13: 9780140168860
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224