In 1996, Frances Mayes published Under the Tuscan Sun, a memoir about buying, renovating and living in an abandoned villa in rural Cortona. It went to number one on the New York Times bestseller list, where it remained for over two years, and in 2003, was made into a film of the same name, starring Diane Lane. Our correspondent Oonagh Stransky, who lives year round in Cortona, interviewed Mayes for The Florentine.
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