Many thanks to my HC publicist Danielle Bartlett, my friend Emilio Bizzi, Dr. Robert DeMartino for medical expertise, photographer Jean Fogelberg, my agent Faith Hamlin, guide Claire Hennessy in Florence, my editor Katherine Nintzel, HC director of library marketing Virginia Stanley, and the staff of the Hotel Residenza Farnese Roma in Rome (especially Paolo).
Authors often thank family members, and although that doesn’t seem a sufficient enough word for the gratitude I feel for all you do for me—and for your love—here it is: a world of thanks to my husband, Alan, and my son, Nicholas.
I have taken some liberties with actual locations and a few descriptions, but not many.