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The Lady in the Palazzo: An Umbrian Love Story | 
 enlarge | Author: Marlena De Blasi
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 47744
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 317
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 1
ISBN: 1565126106
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9781565126107
ASIN: 1565126106
Publication Date: May 27, 2008
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Product Description
Marlena di Blasi seduced readers to fall in love with Venice, then Tuscany, with her popular and critically acclaimed books A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany. Now she takes readers on a journey into the heart of Orvieto, an ancient city in the less-trodden region of Umbria. Rich with history and a vivid sense of place, her tale is by turns romantic and sensual, joyous and celebratory, as she and her husband search for a home in this city on a hill—finding one that turns out to be the former ballroom of a dilapidated sixteenth-century palazzo. Along the way, de Blasi befriends an array of colorful characters, including cooks and counts and shepherds and a lone violinist, cooking her way into the hearts of her Umbrian neighbors.
Brimming with life and kissed by romance, The Lady in the Palazzo perfectly captures the essence of a singular place and offers up a feast—and the recipes to prepare it!—for readers of all stripes.
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 Fantastico! November 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book is like a delicious dessert, you read it slowly, loving every chapter, never wanting it to end.
 A wonderfu read October 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"The Lady in the Palazzo" is a love story: love of life, of good food and wine, but mostly love of people. The main story line of finding ( and eventually moving into) a home in Umbria is a device that allows Ms. De Blasi to expose the wonderful textured lives of the characters in her book. In addition to being a fine chef she is a keen observer of life and takes us on a wonderful journey as her story unfolds....in short , this is a wonderful, sweet book that anyone who loves all things Italian will enjoy immensely...
P.S. This was given to me by my Italian chef wife at our home in Italy where we reside 6 months a year.....some of the people in this book remind us of friends.
 Charming September 6, 2008
Great evolution from Venice to Tuscany. Looking for that perfect place, the writer tells so much about the real life of the real people, and her involvement in trying to cope with love, tragedy, and hope.
Schmaltz June 10, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Some people may enjoy this book. But I found the author self-indulgent
and sentimental. I should add that I am an Italophile and have spent a couple of years in Italy--both for work and pleasure.
I cold not recommend this to anyone.
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