Within Tuscany: Reflections on a Time and Place
by Matthew Spender
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More than 20 years ago, sculptor Matthew Spender and his wife left England for what they intended to be a brief interlude in Tuscany. In his memoir Spender takes us on a meditative tour of the place he now calls home - ranging back in time to the 1260 battle of Montaperti when for the last time the Sienese defeated the Florentines, through the days when Byron and Shelley wandered the streets of Pisa, to the present day farmers who use ancient methods to make olive oil. Spender combines show more history, anecdote and personal observation into a cultural profile of the region, as well as presenting a portrait of a family building a life together in a strange land. show lessTags
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browner56 Two ex-pats offer their fascinating insights on living and working in Italy
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Moody and reflective but at the same time full of what life might feel like in Tuscany.
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Matthew Spender is a writer and sculptor. He married the eldest daughter of Arshile Gorky in 1968
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- Tuscany, Italy
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