In Late Winter We Ate Pears by Deirdre Heekin

Author:Deirdre Heekin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 2011-01-31T05:00:00+00:00

in mantova

This is such a beautiful city that it is worth the thousand mile journey to visit her.

—Tasso, 1586

HOW CAN I DESCRIBE Mantova? In Mantova, the zucce, the pumpkins, taste like no others. In Mantova, Veronese ladies, young and old from near and far, have always shopped for the finest shoes. It is in Mantova that Verdi's Rigoletto mocks the Duke of Gonzaga's courtiers and is then broken by their curses. In Mantova, the castle San Giorgio looms large, lit up by night, over the river Mincio—the same river that surrounded this city before Virgil was born on its banks, the same river that encircled the jeweled dominion of Mathilde de Cannosa in the eleventh century, and then the Marchioness Isabella d'Este, who ruled the city through the Renaissance after her Gonzaga husband's death.

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