PHOTOGRAPHS BY SONJA BULLATY AND ANGELO LOMEO. TEXT BY MARIE-ANGE GUILLAUME
Guillaume also recounts the Florence-based relationship
between famed writer Henry James and his host (and fellow writer) Constance
Fenimore Woolson (grand niece of Fenimore Cooper.)
"Here, I have attained that old-world feeling I used
to dream about, a sort of enthusiasm made up of history, mythology, old
churches, pictures, statues, vineyards, the Italian sky, dark-eyed peasants,
opera-music, Raphael and old Michael....Perhaps I ought to add Henry James. He
has been perfectly charming to me for three weeks," penned Fenimore
Woolson, referring to Michelangelo as old Michael.
Guillaume's keen sense of storytelling -- coupled with
Bullaty's and Lomeo's artistic capturing of said vineyards, statutes, churches,
peasants and haystacks -- make Tuscany a must-have travel book.
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