"The Castle That Only God Knows" by Delfino Cinelli. First English translation (by Archie Stone)of a fascinating glimpse into rural Tuscany under the mezzadria, or share-cropping system, when the
author first took over the vast estate of Spannocchia with his young wife and tried to wrest out of the land and its tenants a livelihood for all. His great friend, the art historian, Bernard Berenson, wrote of "his profound and generous humanity and of his courageous actions in the face of historical events, and of his comprehension of forces which moved them." Paperback, 410 pages, 8 pencil illustrations. First edition 1000 copies. Set in Hoeflertext 11/14, printed in Firenze, February 2005.

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