That Summer in Sicily (30 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I know it’s true that
to understand and to be understood
makes our happiness on earth. In all my life, no one has
understood
more than my editor at Ballantine, Robin Rolewicz.

Intrepid, graceful, wise, Rosalie Siegel is my agent. More, she is my ideal.

Rosalia lo Forte, Dottor Gianluca Pazzaglia, Gilberto Barlozzo, Pina Pettinelli, Christine and Giorgio Crovato, Dottor Mario de Simone, Thomas Berendt, Heiner Oelman, Kristel and Elvio dal Bosco, Isis Elten, Regina Derna, Alessandra Criccomoro, Alberto Bettini, Annette Barlow, Rosalba and Marcello Mencarelli, Rosanna Giombini, Contessa Graziella Fiumi, Gioia Guidi, Doris Engleke, Sharona Guri, Franco Titocchia, Edna Tromans, Alessandro and Anna Repetto, Dottor Paolo Ceccarelli, Dottor Renzo Ceccarelli, Sergio Carli, Chiara Giacomini, Marge and Robert Feder, Diego and Linda Campanile, Roberto Anselmi.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

M
ARLENA DE
B
LASI
is the author of three previous memoirs:
A Thousand Days in Venice, A Thousand Days in Tuscany,
and
The Lady in the Palazzo,
as well as two books on the foods of Italy. She has worked as a chef and as a food and wine consultant, and lives in Italy.

ALSO BY MARLENA DE BLASI

The Lady in the Palazzo

A Thousand Days in Tuscany

A Thousand Days in Venice

A Taste of Southern Italy
(originally published as
Regional Foods of Southern Italy
)

Regional Foods of Northern Italy

That Summer in Sicily
is a work of nonfiction.
Some names and identifying details have been changed.

Copyright © 2008 by Marlena de Blasi
Photograph © 2008 by Grafica, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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ALLANTINE
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

De Blasi, Marlena.
That summer in Sicily : a love story / Marlena de Blasi.
p.                           cm.
1. Sicily—Social life and customs—20th century. 2. National characteristics, Sicilian. 3. Country life—Italy—Sicily. 4. De Blasi, Marlena—Travel—Italy—Sicily. I. Title.
DG
865.6
D
4 2008
914.5’804929092—dc22                           2008002774

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