“But if we lose them, school is no longer school. It is a hospital, which tends to the healthy and rejects the sick. It becomes just a device to strengthen the existing differences to a point of no return.” Letter to a teacher , 1967, Barbiana School Pupils and Don Lorenzo Milani Tuscany is one of the most visited regions of Italy. Every year, more that 6 million visitors swarm its countryside, indulging in its delights and visiting its timeless hilltop towns and historic cities. This land has become firmly entrenched in the people’s perception as the quintessential pastoral idyll; a notion reinforced by books like Frances Mayes’ Under the Tuscan Sun , which have made readers yearn to abandon their hectic city lives elsewhere to live the Tuscan dream. The cypress-lined country roads and the hilltop farms have engaged the imaginations of artists for hundreds of years, and today, Tuscan landscape paintings are in high demand. Yet, few visitors stop to think ...
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