Desiring Italy Book

	Introduction
	Overtures: Vita Sackville-West, Flora Lewis, Kate Simon, Erica Jong
	From Italian Backgrounds: Picturesque Milan	7
	"Cauliflower Heads"	12
	From Rambles in Germany and Italy: Letters from Venice	35
	From The World of Venice: On Women	48
	From The Classic Italian Cookbook: Preface, Italian Cooking: Where Does It Come From?, The Italian Art of Eating, Restaurants, The Bacaro Experience, Gelati	56
	Venice in Fall and Winter	69
	From Embassy to Constantinople: To Lady Mar-	81
	From The Enchanted April: VI, VIII	88
	From Roadside Songs of Tuscany: The Ballad of Saint Zita, A Tuscan Lullaby	97
	From Casa Guidi Windows: Casa Guidi Windows, Bellosguardo	105
	From Romola: Proem	111
	From The Stones of Florence: V	120
	From Italy: The Places in Between: Siena	131
	From Images and Shadows: La Foce & from War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944	142
	From A Valley in Italy: The Many Seasons of a Villa in Umbria: I, VI	165
	Umbrian Spring	173
	From Florence Nightingale in Rome: Letter VI	184
	From Dispatches from Europe to the New York Tribune, 1846-1850: Dispatch 14, Dispatch 19, Dispatch 30	187
	From Middlemarch: The Wedding Journey	198
	Roman Fever	224
	From Rome and a Villa: Fountains	238
	From A Time in Rome: The Smile	248
	From The Light in the Piazza: Introduction & "The White Azalea"	262
	From Pleasure of Ruins	281
	From The Bay of Noon: I, IV, VIII	288
	From Torregreca: Life, Death, Miracles: The Setting, A Night at San Fortunato, The Project Realized, Epilogue	305
	From The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Palermo	329
	From On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal: Prologue, Winter	340
	For Further Reading	359
	Permission Acknowledgments	363