Rita grew up in Brooklyn, the only child of a narcissistic Italian mother and the GI she married at the end of World War II. After her mother’s death, she quits her teaching job and descends upon her poor but aristocratic relatives, the Count and Countess Casati, in Assisi. It takes a while befor...
The vineyards had been particularly successful in the past two years, and she reaffirmed her previous decision. She would sell to Marchesi Antinori. She no longer had the energy to oversee operations, and who knew better than she that absentee ownership never worked. She had tried it forty years ...