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TUSCAN SPACES: LITERARY CONSTRUCTIONS OF PLACE This page intentionally left blank SILVIA ROSS Tuscan Spaces Literary Constructions of Place UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London © University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2010 Toronto Buffalo London www.utppublishing.com Printed in Canada ISBN 978-1-4426-3998-0 (cloth) Printed on acid-free paper Toronto Italian Studies Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Ross, Silvia, 1967– Tuscan spaces: literary constructions of place / Silvia Ross. (Toronto Italian studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4426-3998-0 (bound) 1. Italian literature – Italy – Tuscany – History and criticism. 2. Italian literature – 20th century – History and criticism. 3. Tuscany (Italy) – In literature. I. Title. II. Series: Toronto Italian studies. PQ5902.T82R68 2010 850.9'32455 C2009-906062-0 This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its pub- lishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP). for Mark, David, and Isabella This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 3 1 The Country and the City: Vertigo and Legendary Psychasthenia in Tozzi’s Tuscany 19 2 Palazzeschi’s Spaces of Difference: The Materassi Sisters at the Window 44 3 Vasco Pratolini’s Florentine Spaces of Exclusion 67 4 The Stendhal Syndrome, or The Horror of Being Foreign in Florence 90 5 ‘Going Native’: Tuscan Houses and Italian Others in Contemporary American Travel Writing 120 6 The Tuscan Countryside: Nature and the (Non)Domestic in Elena Gianini Belotti 142 Afterword: Further Tuscan Spaces of Alterity 164 Notes 171 Works Cited 201 Index 215 This page intentionally left blank Illustrations 1 Tozzi’s Farm at Castagneto, outside Siena, 1995 21 2 Siena, rooftops 30 3 Workers leaving the Officine Galileo, Viale Morgagni, 1963 72 4 Ivory, A Room with a View, Lucy and George near the Arno River, the Torre di Arnolfo in the background 106 5 Argento, La sindrome di Stendhal, Anna Manni in the Uffizi Gallery 113 6 Images of Mayes’s house and garden, Bramasole, Cortona, from In Tuscany 136
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