Kinta beevor iris origo autobiography

I know many people who would prefer to live in Paris during the 20s, but I would take Italy almost anytime. Kinta Waterfield Beevor was fortunately born into an artistic family ("It was always said of my parents that they had all the luxuries of life but none of the necessities," 12) in possession of a fortress or castello in northwestern Tuscany.

Kinta's mother later manages her aunt's Poggio Gherardo, a villa in the hills outside of Florence and a place associated with the setting of The Decameron of Bocaccio. My kind of family.

The sparkling memoir of an idyllic, bohemian childhood in an enchanted Tuscan castle between World War I and World War II. When Kinta Beeevor was five.

The sparkling memoir of an idyllic, bohemian childhood in an enchanted Tuscan castle between World War I and World War II. When Kinta Beeevor was five.

Kinta Beevor was five years old when she fell in love with her parents' castle facing the Carrara mountains.

Book overview.

A Tuscan Childhood is a beautiful memoir of an English girl's early life in the Lunigiana region of Tuscany.

The enchantments of the Tuscan countryside are captured in this memoir of the idyllic Bohemian life the author shared with her family in their Italian.

Beevor describes her associations with these two places from 1916 until her old age. I found her description of how Tuscany suffered during the two World Wars especially informative. It made me think of Iris Origo's War in the Val d"Orcia, and there is Iris in the book--her parents were friends of the Waterfields.

My favorite chapter is "War Clouds and Wine Making." Beevor also describes the decline, after World War II, of t