Too much Tuscan Sun

Author(s): Dario Castagno with Robert Rodi

Location(s): Tuscany

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

Era(s): Modern

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Over the past several years, “the American in Tuscany,” has become a literary sub genre. Launched by the phenomenal success of Frances Mayes’s Under the Tuscan Sun, bookstores now burgeon with nimble, witty accounts of this clash in cultures – Americans trying to do American things in Italy and bumping against a brick wall of tradition. Before this sub genre exhausts itself, it’s only fair that we hear the other side of the story – that of a native Tuscan and of dozens of Americans who have stormed through his life and homeland, determined to find in it whatever they are looking for, whether quaintness or wisdom, submission or direction. There is no one better to provide this view than Dario Castagno. A Tuscan guide whose client base is predominantly American, Dario has spent more than a decade taking individuals and small groups on customized tours through the Chianti region of Tuscany. Reared in Britain through early childhood, he speake English fluently and is therefore capable of fully engaging his American clients and getting to know them.

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