Within this sequel to her NY Times bestsellers Beneath the Tuscan Sunlight and Bella Tuscany, the celebrated ‘bard of Tuscany’ (New York Instances) lyrically chronicles her continuing, two decades-long romance with Tuscany’s people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle.

Frances Mayes presents her visitors a deeply personal memoir of her present-day existence in Tuscany, encompassing both changes she has experienced since Beneath the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany appeared, and sensuous, evocative reflections about EACH DAY in Tuscany: Periods of the Italian Life within the timeless beauty and vivid pleasures of Italian life. Among the styles Mayes explores are how her experience of Tuscany dramatically extended when she renovated and became a part-time resident of a 13th century home with a rock roof in the mountains above Cortona, how lifestyle in the mountains introduced her to a ‘wilder’ aspect of Tuscany–and with it a exciting engagement with Tuscany’s mountain people. Throughout, she reveals the concrete joys of life in her used hill town, with particular attention to lifestyle in the piazza, the artwork of Luca Signorelli (Renaissance painter from Cortona), as well as the pastoral pleasures of feasting from her backyard. Moving always toward a deeper engagement, Mayes writes of Tuscan symbols that have become on her behalf storehouses of memory space, of crucible occasions from which larger ideas emerged, and of the writing lifestyle she has loved in the room where Beneath the Tuscan Sunlight began.

With more around the pleasures of life at Bramasole, the delights and challenges of surviving in Italy day-to-day and favorite meals, EACH DAY in Tuscany is a passionate and inviting account of the richness and complexity of Italian life.