Author’s Preface 1. Illustrious but Dead 2. ‘O Sole Splendido!’ 3. View from a Hill 4. The Fireflies 5. Abundance 6. How to Drive a Car in This Country 7. Spirit and Locality 8. Florentines on Florentines 9. To Touch a Donatello 10. L’ Impruneta 11. Going to School 12. Concerning Forest Fires 13. Tale of a Tuscan Garden 14. Florentine Food and Drink 15. An Egg and a Leg 16. Spring 17. A Chapter on Games 18. The Alpini Invasion 19. The Small Streets 20. Houses Under the Soil 21. High Summer 22. Panache of a Beggar 23. A Very Brief History of the Florentine Theatre 24. The Car of Thespis 25. Eyewitness of the Pact of Twinship 26. British Week 27. Rome 28. A Sackful of Sand 29. The Coming of the Mud 30. City to City 31. The New Generation Envoy Booklist Appendix: The Italian Police System Index
Biography
Joseph Macleod
