Tuscany in Mind

In her fourth literary travel companion, Alice Leccese Powers explores one of the most seductive regions of the world through more than two centuries of fiction, poetry, essays, letters, and memoirs byEnglish-speaking visitors to northern Italy.
The poet Shelley called Tuscany "a paradise of exiles"; it has long been a magnet for literary travelers and expatriates. Here are writers who havemade their home in Tuscan villas, castles, and farmhouses, from the Shelleys, Byron, and the Brownings to Frances Mayes. Here too are Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Henry James, and E. M. Forster on the glories ofFlorence, Pisa's leaning tower, and the enchanting Tuscan countryside, alongside the tart wit of Mark Twain, Mary McCarthy, and Erica Jong. From James Boswell's record of his romantic dalliances toLaura Fraser's memoir An Italian Affair to Sarah Dunant's novel The Birth of Venus, Tuscany in Mind" "assembles a glitteringmosaic portrait of an unforgettable place.
Kinta Beevor - James Boswell - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Robert Browning - Lord Byron - Bruce Chatwin- Ann Cornelisen - Charles Dickens - Sarah Dunant - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Penelope Fitzgerald - E. M. Forster - Laura Fraser - Paul Gervais- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison - Robert Hellenga - William Dean Howells - Henry James - Erica Jong - D. H. Lawrence - David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell- Robert Lowell - Frances Mayes - Mary McCarthy - H. V. Morton - Eric Newby - Iris Origo - John Ormond - Elizabeth Romer - JohnRuskin - Mary Shelley - Percy Bysshe Shelley - Kate Simon - Tobias Smollett - Matthew Spender - Stephen Spender - Mark Twain - EdithWharton "From the Trade Paperback edition."