![]() ![]() Mayes's shopping route the way medieval pilgrims once followed the Stations of the Cross. In the central square of the Renaissance hill town of Cortona, two miles away, acolytes retrace Mrs. ![]() ''The metaphor of the house as the self.''Įvery day in the high season, 30 to 40 tourists, Americans, and also devotees from Australia, Germany, the Netherlands and other countries, stop at the iron gates, hungry to savor her lyrical account of replastering walls, beams, clearing ivy, cajoling Italian contractors and finding the perfect olive oil. ''I don't identify with her particularly, except that I've always loved houses,'' Mrs. She bristles at analogies to Martha Stewart. She said her role model is the French novelist Colette, and quotes Octavio Paz and Homer in her books. The visitors craned for a better look at Bramasole, the apricot-colored 18th-century villa below an Etruscan wall, the center of the odyssey that turned a middle-aged creative writing teacher at San Francisco State University into a best-selling author and cult figure. ![]()
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