Every Day in Tuscany: Seasons of an Italian Life Audiobook (Free)

In this sequel to her New York Times bestsellers Beneath the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, the celebrated ‘bard of Tuscany’ (NY Instances) lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-long love affair with Tuscany’s people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle.

Frances Mayes presents her readers a deeply personal memoir of her present-day life in Tuscany, encompassing both the changes she’s experienced since Beneath the Tuscan Sunlight and Bella Tuscany appeared, and sensuous, evocative reflections about Every Day in Tuscany: Months of the Italian Life in the timeless beauty and vivid pleasures of Italian lifestyle. Among the themes Mayes explores are how her experience of Tuscany dramatically expanded when she renovated and became a part-time resident of a 13th century house with a stone roofing in the mountains above Cortona, how existence in the mountains introduced her to a ‘wilder’ side of Tuscany–and with it a exciting engagement with Tuscany’s hill people. Throughout, she reveals the concrete joys of existence in her followed hill city, with particular attention to lifestyle in the piazza, the artwork of Luca Signorelli (Renaissance painter from Cortona), and the pastoral pleasures of feasting from her backyard. Moving constantly toward a deeper engagement, Mayes writes of Tuscan icons which have become for her storehouses of memory, of crucible moments from which bigger ideas surfaced, and of the composing lifestyle she has liked in the room where Beneath the Tuscan Sun began.

With more around the pleasures of life at Bramasole, the delights and challenges of surviving in Italy day-to-day and favorite quality recipes, EACH DAY in Tuscany is a separate and inviting account of the richness and complexity of Italian life.