The Lady in the Palazzo

What you need to know before your trail

Marlena de Blasi takes us on a journey to Orvieto in the Italin region of Umbria as she moves there with her husband, Fernando

Orvieto is an old and ancient city and so at first she finds it hard to settle in

She tries adapt via the only way she knows how – by cooking.

Rich with a vivid sense of place, her memoir is both romantic and sensual, and a joy for all the senses . She finds her perfect home to be an old dilapidated sixteenth-century palazzo.