We live close to town so I walk in for a cappuccino, then take a circuitous route back to Bramasole, my house. Recently I’ve taken up listening to books as I walk. Altogether, we’re there for about five months a year.įM: I walk the Roman roads. We just were there for the olive harvest. Oonagh Stransky: How much time do you spend in Cortona these days?įrances Mayes: We come and go. Our correspondent Oonagh Stransky, who lives year round in Cortona, interviewed Mayes for The Florentine. It went to number one on the New York Times bestseller list, where it remained for over two years, and in 2003, was made into a film of the same name, starring Diane Lane. In 1996 Frances Mayes published Under the Tuscan Sun, a memoir about buying, renovating and living in an abandoned villa in rural Cortona.
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