Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Marietta, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel
It was by this latter road that farmer Carlo Palli, and his son, Giovanni, were travelling up to the capital on a. May morning, in one of the earlier years of this century. Farmer Palli, I have said, because the familiar idea associated with that title conveys to an English reader, most readily, an adequate pic ture of the outward man and social status of the wealthy Casentino agriculturist. But, strictly speak ing, Signor Palli was not a farmer, but a. Fattore, or agent, or land-steward. He cultivated and entirely managed the large estates of the Marchese Ferdinando Perini, but he did not farm any part of them; that relationship between landlord and culti vator being unknown in the Casentino, as in most of the other parts of Tuscany.
The estates, which had been acquired by the father of the present marquis during the time of the French occupation, - for the Perini were quite new men, turned up to the top of Fortune's wheel by some of the rapid and strange whirls characteristic of that period, - were situated not far from Poppi the picturesque little town which, perched with its old castle on the top of an entirely isolated rock, in the very middle of the valley of the Casentino.
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