Tuscany in mind - Alice Leccese Powers

In her fourth literary travel companion, Alice Leccese Powers explores one of the most seductive regions of the world through more than two centuries of fiction, poetry, essays, letters, and memoirs by English-speaking visitors to northern Italy.
The poet Shelley called Tuscany "a paradise of exiles"; it has long been a magnet for literary travelers and expatriates. Here are writers who have made their home in Tuscan villas, castles, and farmhouses, from the Shelleys, Byron, and the Brownings to Frances Mayes. Here too are Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, Henry James, and E. M. Forster on the glories of Florence, Pisa's leaning tower, and the enchanting Tuscan countryside, alongside the tart wit of Mark Twain, Mary McCarthy, and Erica Jong. From James Boswell's record of his romantic dalliances to Laura Fraser's memoir An Italian Affair to Sarah Dunant's novel The Birth of Venus, Tuscany in Mind assembles a glittering mosaic portrait of an unforgettable place.

Kinta Beevor
James Boswell
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Lord Byron
Bruce Chatwin
Ann Cornelisen
Charles Dickens
Sarah Dunant
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Penelope Fitzgerald
E. M. Forster
Laura Fraser
Paul Gervais
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Robert Hellenga
William Dean Howells
Henry James
Erica Jong
D. H. Lawrence
David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell
Robert Lowell
Frances Mayes
Mary McCarthy
H. V. Morton
Eric Newby
Iris Origo
John Ormond
Elizabeth Romer
John Ruskin
Mary Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Kate Simon
Tobias Smollett
Matthew Spender
Stephen Spender
Mark Twain
Edith Wharton