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The Next House
A Life Lived Well Moves Backward 5
Truth, Hard and Hot, Has Its Pleasures 21
Once in a While, Let Life Shape Itself 30
Life Is Lived in Epochs 50
Waiting for a Ballroom
That's Umbria Out There 57
Everywhere in Orvieto There Is the Suspicion of Glory 64
Bombastes Is Back in Town 80
Umbria Is Italy Unmingled 84
She Says People Need to Be Together as Much as They Need to Eat 102
Besides, They All Have Something of the Ass about Them, Chou 115
I Preferred One Waltz with a Beauty to a Lifetime with Someone Less Rare 132
Wait until Midnight If You Can 140
Sleep Well and Rise Early to an Exuberance of Bells 153
Most All of Us Abide in Ruins 163
I'd Like to Have Hair the Color of Hot Copper Wires 173
And Be Careful of Edgardo d'Onofrio 192
The Orvietani 196
We're Going to Live in a Ballroom, Fernando. Isn't That the Most Wonderful Thing You Ever Heard? 217
Brahms at Eight O'Clock from Across the Vicolo 227
In Via del Duomo
Where I Come From, We Invite Our Neighbors and Friends to Supper 247
Black Ties and Pretty Dresses 260
Would the Lady Be Pleased by a Waltz? 274
The Jeast
Pan-Sauteed Winter Pears with Pecorino and Walnut Focaccia 301
Umbrichelli with Olivada 305
Leg of Spiced Pork Slow-Braised in Red Wine with Prunes 308
Roasted Chestnut Polenta 310
Brown Sugar Gelato with Caramelized Blood Oranges 312
Warm Sambuca Fritters 315
Acknowledgments 317
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Thilo Hensel
reviewed The Lady in the Palazzo on February 27, 2009
The Lady in the Palazzo
This is the third book in Marlena De Blasi's stories about living in Italy. By now she had become more accustomed to the cultural differences between the US and Italy, and she and her husband Fernando are as strongly connected as ever. It was interesting to see what new adventure or stuggle was laid at their doorstep.
This book again featured long passages with descriptions about food; food preparation, eating food, the setting food was presented in, and food at the markets. Another cast of quirky characters are sprinkled throughout, and the pair valiantly tries to remain patient as the search for the perfect Umbrian living space commences.
I listened to the audio version of this book. (I'd read the first two books in teh series.) I think I like hearing it in audio format instead of reading it because all the Italian words and phrases sprinkled liberally throughout sound so much better on audio than my non-Italian speaking mind pronounced them internally. My favorite book of the series is still, 'A Thousand Days in Venice', but this one is worth the time to read.
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