Pietro's Book: The Story of a Tuscan Peasant

by Pietro Pinti, Jenny Bawtree

A sharecropper's son recounts his youth on a Florence farm under Mussolini's regime, describing how they unceasingly worked through the Second World War, made wine and olive oil, planted and harvested wheat by hand, and made baskets and ladders with chestnut wood.

Genres: Italy, Historical, Nonfiction

184 pages, Hardcover

First published July 24, 2003

Reviews

[Marcy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting.

[Olga Vannucci · Rating 5 out of 5]

Imagine growing all your food
Using tools you've made,
Giving the owner of the fields and woods
Half of what you've raised.