tuscany (italy)

The author, having spent several summers working to restore the villa she purchased in Tuscany, shares her ongoing love affair with her home and the country, and discusses her joyous experience of the spring season in Italy.

After having accidentally come across the eighteenth-century "Portrait of a Young Lady", Violet embarks on a trip to Italy hoping to discover her own past and why the girl in the portrait is her own mirror image. In her quest she discovers long buried family secrets, mysterious Italian paintings, an old castle on the hill, and a danger that is lurking just around the corner.

Chronicles the life of Curzio Inghirami and reveals how he staged the most outlandish prank of the seventeenth century by forging an array of ancient Latin and Etruscan documents.