A Tower in Tuscany: Or a Home for My Writers and Other Animals

Author:   Be Monti Della Corte ,  Michael Cunningham
Publisher:   Rizzoli International Publications
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9780847870103


Pages:   244
Publication Date:   27 April 2021
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A glimpse inside a magical Tuscan villa--rustic yet urbane, old-world elegant yet bohemian, accessible yet personal--that nurtures the world's finest literary talents. In the hills above Florence, Santa Maddalena is like a secret garden where writers hone their craft and meet like-minded people. Paired with evocative images, these essays by 27 acclaimed authors invite readers to understand how the spirit of this restored villa, its owners and resident pets have inspired creative writing and creativity among so many. Monti della Corte and her late husband, Gregor von Rezzori, transformed a ruin into the ultimate retreat where they would write, garden, and entertain friends and fellow artists--Pedro Almodóvar, Bernardo Bertolucci, David Hockney, Isabella Rossellini. This gracious weaving together of hospitality and creativity became the Santa Maddalena Foundation and writers' fellowship program in 2000.

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Author:   Be Monti Della Corte ,  Michael Cunningham
Publisher:   Rizzoli International Publications
Imprint:   Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:  

9780847870103


ISBN 10:   0847870103
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   27 April 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Replaced By:   9780789341563
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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What's better than a look inside a home in the idyllic Italian countryside? A selection of essays from authors including Zadie Smith and Edmund White, among many others who've retreated to a storied Tuscan farmhouse to write. --ELLE DECOR Beatrice Monti della Corte has been welcoming writers to her villa in Tuscany for what feels like forever. Ralph Fiennes and Edmund White recount the extraordinary experience of being there. --AIRMAIL.COM


What's better than a look inside a home in the idyllic Italian countryside? A selection of essays from authors including Zadie Smith and Edmund White, among many others who've retreated to a storied Tuscan farmhouse to write. -ELLE DECOR Beatrice Monti della Corte has been welcoming writers to her villa in Tuscany for what feels like forever. Ralph Fiennes and Edmund White recount the extraordinary experience of being there. -AIRMAIL.COM


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Beatrice Monti della Corte ran Galleria dell'Ariete, a trailblazing art gallery in Milan in the 1950s and is the founder of the Santa Maddalena Foundation, which administers the Premio Gregor von Rezzori and the eponymous writers' retreat. François Halard is one of the most important interior and architectural photographers and has been published in Vogue, Apartamento, T Magazine, and Cabana, among others. Michael Cunningham is the author of A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours (winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize), Specimen Days, By Nightfall, The Snow Queen, and Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown.

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