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Pietro's Book

The Story of a Tuscan Peasant

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Pietro Pinti, born as he says "in the Middle Ages", worked the land with hoe and plow from his earliest youth. Growing up under Mussolini's Fascist regime on a farm near Florence, he and his family lived under conditions of extreme poverty, as sharecroppers to generally unscrupulous landowners. But during World War II, when millions in towns and cities suffered untold hardships, the hardy Tuscan peasants were well equipped to face the rigors of the era. War or no war, work on the land went on, and Pietro describes month by month a typical year in their lives: how they made wine and olive oil, planted and harvested the wheat by hand, made baskets and ladders from chestnut wood - skills now lost.

With sly wit and salty wisdom, Pietro, a natural storyteller who played the trumpet, wrote poetry, and grew famous for his tales of peasants, knights, and brigands, recreates in colorful detail a world and peasant culture that is fast disappearing. Jenny Bawtree, an Englishwoman long settled in Tuscany, was so fascinated by Pietro's stories that she helped shape them into this autobiography, full of color and humor, hardship, and nostalgia.

©2011 Pietro Pinti and Jenny Bawtree (P)2012 Audible, Inc. Europe Spirituel Guerre
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The author was perhaps the last generation to live as a peasant in Europe: his Tuscan family relied entirely on what they themselves grew and made by hand. A life without cash, consumerism, or modern technology. Very thorough and well-organized, presenting the positive and negative aspects of this vanished world.

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