![]() Rich with history and a vivid sense of place, her tale is by turns romantic and sensual, joyous and celebratory, as she and her husband search for a home in this city on a hill-finding one that turns out to be the former ballroom of a dilapidated sixteenth-century palazzo. Now she takes readers on a journey into the heart of Orvieto, an ancient city in the less-trodden region of Umbria. Marlena di Blasi seduced readers to fall in love with Venice, then Tuscany, with her popular and critically acclaimed books A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany. ![]() ![]() The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria So de Blasi sets out to establish her niche in this new place and to win over her new neighbors by doing what she does best, cooking her way into their hearts. Having neither an edge to a sea nor a face to a foreign land, it’s a region less trampled by travelers and, in turn, less accepting of strangers. With the breathless anticipation that seduced her readers to fall in love with Venice and then Tuscany, Marlena de Blasi now takes us on a new journey as she moves with her husband, Fernando, to Orvieto, a large and ancient city in Italy’s Umbria. Known for its white wine and olive oil, Orvieto is a medieval town perched on cliffs above a pastoral countryside with a white and black striped cathedral in the middle of the village. ![]() When I read that this book was about Orvieto, my heart stopped! I visited this tiny, hilltop town just outisde Rome almost 10 years ago and it remains one of the most beautiful places I’ve visited in Italy. ![]()
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