Bibliograph

Mother tongue, an American life in Italy, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi ; with a new foreword by Patricia Hampl and a new preface by the author

Type

Label

Mother tongue, an American life in Italy, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi ; with a new foreword by Patricia Hampl and a new preface by the author

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-373)

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mother tongue

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1102074795

Responsibility statement

Wallis Wilde-Menozzi ; with a new foreword by Patricia Hampl and a new preface by the author

Sub title

an American life in Italy

Summary

Fourteen years ago, the American writer Wallis Wilde-Menozzi moved with her husband and daughter to Parma, a prosperous city in northern Italy. Searching for a way to find a place within a city that has existed since Roman times, she conducted a highly personal investigation of the often baffling, closed way of life she encountered. Mother Tongue explores Parma, largely through the lives of its women, some historical figures - Giuseppe Verdi, Correggio, the Renaissance. badessa Giovanna Piacenza - and other extraordinary individuals. It is also a remarkable, probing evocation of an American life that has been tried and tempered by two very different societies. No other book evokes so poignantly and profoundly the role of food, faith, and family attachment in Italian life and, by reflection, in our own

Target audience

adult

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