Pietro's Book: The Story of a Tuscan Peasant (ePub)
The Story of a Tuscan Peasant
(Sprache: Englisch)
Pietro Pinti, born as he says 'in the Middle Ages,' worked the land with hoe and plow from his earliest youth. Growing up under Mussolini's Fascist regime on a farm near Florence, he and his family lived under conditions of extreme poverty, as sharecroppers...
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Pietro Pinti, born as he says 'in the Middle Ages,' worked the land with hoe and plow from his earliest youth. Growing up under Mussolini's Fascist regime on a farm near Florence, he and his family lived under conditions of extreme poverty, as sharecroppers to generally unscrupulous landowners. But during World War II, when millions in towns and cities suffered untold hardships, the hardy Tuscan peasants were well equipped to face the rigors of the era: war or no war, work on the land went on, and Pietro describes month by month a typical year in their lives: how they made wine and olive oil, planted and harvested the wheat by hand, made baskets and ladders from chestnut wood-skills now lost. With sly wit and salty wisdom, Pietro, a natural storyteller who played the trumpet, wrote poetry, and grew famous for his tales of peasants, knights, and brigands, recreates in colorful detail a world and peasant culture that is fast disappearing. Jenny Bawtree, an Englishwoman long settled in Tuscany, was so fascinated by Pietro's stories that she helped shape them into this autobiography, full of color and humor, hardship and nostalgia.
Autoren-Porträt von Pietro Pinti
Pietro Pinti was born in 1927 in the Arno valley, the twelfth child of a family of sharecroppers. At eleven he was taking the pigs into the woods for acorns, at fourteen he was running the farm and ploughing with oxen. When he left the land in 1969 he worked first as a builder's mate and then came to the riding centre, where at 75 he is still working as cook. Jenny Bawtree was brought up in the Oxfordshire countryside and read languages at Oxford. After teaching at Florence University, she set up the riding centre at Rendola, in the Arno valley. She is now working on a book about the Chianti region.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Pietro Pinti
- 2012, Ebook Original, Digital Original, 999 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
- ISBN-10: 161145980X
- ISBN-13: 9781611459807
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.01.2012
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