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"After twenty years of marriage and against my better judgment, I finally convinced David to use his virgin passport and frequent flyer miles to celebrate a special anniversary in the country of cypress-fringed roads and blood-orange sunsets.
As soon as he agreed, however, my heart began fluttering with anticipation--but not for the reason you might expect. It wasn't that I was already daydreaming of a tangled Tuscan romance in a country villa. Instead, I was struck by the thought of David trying to pack his clothes for his first trip abroad."
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From my first step off a train as a graduate architecture student (one hot August day long ago in Vicenza), I was smitten. And while I wasn't surprised that I loved everything I experienced in Italy, I was surprised at the intensity of my infatuation. Years later, I pursued that passion by writing ITALY FEVER: 14 Ways to Satisfy Your Love Affair With Italy, and today, my design and consulting business continues to be influenced by my appreciation for Italian architecture and the Mediterranean lifestyle.
I invite you to follow my ITALY FEVER BLOG where I share news and events of Italy, plus favorite books, music, movies, and destinations---“feverish” tidbits to tease and inspire YOU to travel on your own in Italy, or vicariously, at home!
And, I invite you to also follow my VILLA TEXAS DESIGN BLOG where I share design and Mediterranean lifestyle inspirations and do-it-yourself projects for the home and garden.
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From the jacket . . .
She had first traveled to Italy as a graduate student in architecture. She captured images of Roman ruins and historic Renaissance buildings and absorbed the sensuous landscape of rural Italy. And that's when it happened--the beginning of her love affair with a foreign country.
Now, more than ten years later, Darlene Marwitz renews her post-forty spirit by following a passion and indulging in engaging (and often humorous) ways to feed her Italy fever. She shares old and new ideas and humble experiences to help readers discover, interpret, and incorporate "pieces" of Italy into their own lives. Her favorite Web sites, books, and movies are eclectic gems.
From talking to a map of Italy on her walls to learning finger counting in Italian, from collecting old postcards of Venice and Rome to sampling gelato combinations and calling it "research," from cravingthe music of Andrea Bocelli to overdosing on Verdi and Puccini, fromstalking used bookstores for Italy-looking and -sounding titles to marathon movie weekends via video--she is smitten, even obsessed, with all things Italian.
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About the Author
Following her passion for the Mediterranean lifestyle, Marwitz and her husband, David, and yellow Labrador, Hanna, live in Austin and Fredericksburg, Texas. They also have a "slice of Italy" (rolling countryside) along the Pedernales River in the Texas Hill Country.
Darlene Marwitz has two graduate degrees in Historic Preservation from the School of Architecture at The University of Texas in Austin. Marwitz juggles a design and historic preservation consulting business and continues to write and paint (and travel to Italy as often as she can!).
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