Frances Mayes

I could do a whole podcast on this part of Italian culture.

And then further down the track, there was Frances Mayes who bought a villa on the edge of Tuscany.

Her best-selling memoirs of life in Italy have paved the way for many readers and lovers of Italy and ignited a few of us on our own personal quests.

And so Italy and Florence has been a magnet for the tourist and the historian and the writer and the artist for a really long time.