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Among the landmarks behind me.

The great role known as the Duomo back EL the bridge that dates back to the 1300 and written history and arts and culture. Florence is our home base this morning where inside the magnificent Duomo the great angel completed in 1436 century and 1/2 after it was begun looking around this beautiful city. It's easy to see why Americans fall in love with the idea of living in Italy are Mark Phillips has met some of done it for all abuse reasons for now some are finding they don't have to go home. They already are partially black. Leslie from Oregon granddaughters of an Italian boy could send me a feel for from Long Island via Florida run the relay or tell you a B&B in Tuscany for a boy and a girl from Long Island. Bill is the great-grandson of Italian immigrants who would've thought we would ended up and they've all discovered a connection to Italy. That's deeper than they thought Marcy and Leslie Bill may actually be Italian ladies because of what is known as the law of blood. A lot of people of Italy.

The recent not everybody wants to become an Italian why did you decide to shortcut I was on a T-shirt.

Everybody's comes from somewhere.

Everybody has roots against and coming back.

Perhaps it was written on a T-shirt, but more importantly it's also written in old Italian laws. Phil has found that unlike US citizenship which is based on where you were born based on whether your parents had Italian blood in their veins blood that can run it down through the generations all the way from Phil's immigrant ancestor to him. So after years of coming to Italy on vacation. Phil and Sandy have sold out America settled down comfortable here. We love the culture love the food. Starting from your great-grandfather Vincenzo in setting up business here. Phil's lawyer Michele Kopecky informed him he was probably a lucky winner in the great Italian citizenship lottery first member of the family that was boarding neatly when he moved to a foreign country.

He kept on passing the Italian citizenship Italian block to children and grandchildren thought so you're telling me that, whether they know it or not there potentially millions of Americans who, because of the blood that flows in their veins are still Italians yes what determines the transfer of the citizenship is the blood of the turn-of-the-century. More than 4 million Italians immigrated to the US between 1880 and 1920. Today, more than 17 million Americans claim Italian ancestry. The law of blood means many of them are still technically Italian as well. Companies that we are very connected to the country will love a call to love the language we love we love we love you. Can you do it on your own or do you have to hire a lawyer to do. You can absolutely by yourself which is why Marcy and Leslie, the Oregon sisters have come to find their families records in a small town in southern if their grandfather Philippe Shea left for the US around 1900, changing the family name to Oliver, the old name still takes some getting used to, and how very well and see Mo at the records office spends a lot of time digging up documents of residents who left for America. A century or so ago and going throughout the course believe when we heard that we could do it, so it was an exciting dual citizenship would be a great benefit for ourselves and our children. What's the benefit I have someplace to go and escape clause. There seems to be an uptick in the Manley are the things that are happening at home now that make the ideas looking further afield more attractive to countries divided nice to have placed potentially we can cut sometime wants to reclaim her own citizenship and now runs a business here guiding Italian Americans along their own heritage trails off of meeting her long-lost distant cousins along the way, not only connects them to Italy and EU passport means they can live anywhere in Europe. So what size is this movement now becoming an industry take a look at the Italian consulate. If you look at San Francisco conference or Los Angeles. There's a tenure waitlist to get an appointment to submit your application can get it. Wheel of history is turning greased with irony what blogs that's full circle.

Your great great grandpa parent know comes to America for a better life.

Great great grandchild goes better life that on held that a side story is still being written. Perfect spot to sample the delicious food and drink of Italy market where you can find just about any delicacy sent down will offer us like to begin say cheese better come early to snag a number of specialty role. This is fresh buffalo mozzarella Styrofoam boxes.

Emotions however are not contain a number money was put to sleep all the way from Milan. You can buy this in the grocery store and why come here because the pace of these monies for me things so that the Galapagos just behind this is the organic cheese maker because if he joked to Newton the new low in southern Italy not far from the ancient ruins of past due. Maybe we'll get this was the first course of the goal of home yet. He runs his family farm where the Buffalo are well pampered if we can give them to proceed with the best way. We must and the ecologically rest of his soothing music is hiked into the pen.

When the Buffalo feel they are ready lineup on their room to be built by machine. They can also shower or a massage lock is one after the milk is collected, herds are produced in just about five hours there, formed into balls special technique that gave mozzarella its name means yes watching the chance to see the process draws locals and tourists alike, including Patricia O's from Louisiana. How different is the mozzarella you've tried here in southern Italy from US allies like melts in your Buffalo milk has a higher percentage of the cow richer and sweeter. Domenico Calderon. He came from Bolivia to learn this rather involvement are the consortium for the protection of buffalo mozzarella Campagna did you realize how difficult it was going to be to make mozzarella. I was thinking more of a process, but it's been six and counting looks easy just dance on complicated to master, but whether featured on a pizza or eaten plain. It's simply delicious tradition of our craftsmanship continues to this day. Here's our Martha Teicher we hear next W sure you heard like Leonardo and she designed this machine for winding thread.

There is a copy of his sketch. He designed it in the end of the 1400 and this was made in 1600 this very machine still in use for hundreds of years later, may directly from this machine is beautiful. Brights Philippe Ricci yellow soup maker said to teach Jo Fiorentino, now entering into the sorry if I can see that the 1700 lm in 1786 is most prominent families handed over their personal moves so Florence could go into business reducing the luxury fabrics its aristocrats war. This is the enemy. Zeno is a special kind of a renaissance to have to change the color according to how the light hits the fabric is green and red combined Bactrian Renaissance. Yes specialists yeah I love the sound city businessman banker Lawrence was always conspicuous consumption. Just look at its arts and the gold jewelry so want to thank you for selling in Lane Ruth. Below is an American Renaissance art historian who lives in Florence when she became city like the smell of all that fish so they change the function of the French to place an calls shops on this bridge since as bankers and then powerful political figures. The Mattice were famous patrons of the arts and of artisans, Florentine artisans today.

The past is the present upset as he padded that he will LOL she said talking gold fly restorers. Stephani Martelli uses the same techniques the same tools the same gold is guilders working for the Mattice welcome to the Chapel of the princes, the Florence interesting to visit his one big display Mattice taste. This is all all inmates stone. It's called piazza due to the words mean hard stone you could be fooled into thinking this is paint, but it's not explain what we have here is a stone world in Yaoundé for Olympus heads PT MOSI e.g. today by us a workshop creating Pietro due to almost the way it is done. This is part of the artistry is in searching house stones Galapagos lots for the perfect color and shading then cutting and fitting the pieces together like an intricate puzzle some variation of color. It's slow, painstaking work EEO sons are learning how to do it when I started. We had several workshops and found I would save between 25 and and now only three left. There are still 500 traditional artisan workshops in Florence. The bad news that 75 and 10 years ago that I will technique Maria Giannini is the sixth generation in her family to make marbleized paper once used in bookbinding. Now this is more of a novelty to her but she hangs in making one she did time because for her for so many of the artisans of Florence. It's about passion.

It's important this section, and it's also to get people pay self.

My and my study as well is important because they need something is amazing.

Yes, yes, it's magic quite literally under the Tuscan Sun which you may recall, is the title of the best-selling book by Francis Mays and all these years later that's exactly where Rita braver found one of the most pain as villas in Tuscany attracting a constant stream of Torres. Someone call from SLA. My urine for Soleil sign yes, it is not house from the book American Francis Mays felt an irresistible urge to buy back in 1990 and it was wise it was derelict. This whole front garden was practically in the road. Mays transformed the 300-year-old property outside and again, even breaking through walls and when we started opening that course without house was falling.

That was one scene in the movie.

It was really accurate under the Tuscan sun was the movie that was based on her memoir about storing the house book spent more than two years on the bestseller list, much to the shock of this one time Prof. and I went. I expected to sell like one of my books of poetry which means not at all anything touched a chord with so many people wonder that a lot. It's a woman taking a risk and doing something out of the plan out of expectations. Even her own expectations and then of course as a writer. I like to think that writing does.

One morning Francis played by Diane Lane taking up with an alien lover next project which doesn't phase her longtime life partner at all. Book is about two happy people come to task all mazelike, his wife, a poet and professor was here from the beginning. Many relationships would never survive the redoing what was the key.

I think it's love, respect, sense of adventure. This is gorgeous Renaissance church. Those indentures are featured in the other books. Mays has now written about Italy including her latest ceiling. The anytime you leave a party night. The last thing someone says see you focuses on the beaten track town. No child like her adopted where she seems to know everyone beautiful LA prosciutto. The new book is sprinkled with recipes, semolina gnocchi has a couple loves to cook. So, as our eggplant invoking the we made inside this you know it's spring in Tuscany. When you say five with pecorino that is so, and after all these years.

Francis Mays marveled right now, we never expected to have no great not to be able to expect is if you can expected and predicted it not as much fun as we've seen, the part of Maggio is the historic bridge where gold is always in fashion fashion. Tracy Smith tells us is the life's work of modern designer Brunello Cuccinelli country thousands of little towns like being deserted people moving to the cities is thriving.

The work of one extraordinary man. His name is Brunello coaching Ellie, if you haven't heard of him. Maybe it's because you're not shopping in well the right places. Ellie makes luxury where the finest fabrics all very carefully made into closing down for the best stores and the brightest light Ryan Reynolds has been known to show up wearing Cuccinelli same for Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio Cuccinelli cashmere sweater can cost $2000 suit closer to five and this was all started by a man with a dream and not much else. Brunello Cuccinelli was born near Sola Mayo in 1953 and grew up in a house with no plumbing and no electricity. As a young man inspired by the woman he would eventually marry. He hit on the idea of making knitwear money did you have when you started this business well.

We were farmers, so I didn't have even a dollar in my pocket – so with a $500 loan he made a handful of cashmere sweaters and now coaching. Ellie is an international $500 million a year company. It's not just about money.

This company Cuccinelli changed his life and the lives of nearly everyone around him started with names many church which is practically restored to its original glory, then build this 240 part of the village tore down old warehouses that cluttered the valley and let trees grow there instead.

Cuccinelli factory is beautiful to an entire wall is mostly Windows people the feeling that they're working outside and as you might expect Cuccinelli also uses workers more than they get just about anywhere else but forget about overtime. It's forbidden to work after 5:30 PM.

Check to see believes that working too many hours will words steal your soul balance between mine so I am so so 1 PM every day very stylish work for company dining hall for a mandatory 90 much hamper his workers comes from watching his father drag himself home each day from his backbreaking job at a cement factory you saw the tears in his eyes see. Yes, 15, 16, it was really impact my father Billy that's what got my inspiration and that's where my big project of life came from moral and economic dignity of the human beings. Cuccinelli calls all of this, a humanistic enterprise in the world of industry. Apparently it works. The company is growing and Cuccinelli himself is a billionaire you were on the Forbes list as being billionaire and people show this to your father. What did your father say that you listen he pointed at me as he said the only thing that matters to me is for you to be a good man.

This stream of my life and looking at Salomé's. I do know about you but I could use some caffeine collect espresso with Seth down southern Italian city Ron resto's and coffee here is like a religion.

The gum greenness was established. Italy was back would be like about part of our Marcello offers high-end tours of the city's regular stock espresso simply cold coffee here takes about 30 seconds to brew less than that ring okay please take your time but you know what works our house really, how many cups of coffee think working here roughly 10 pieces. It's a real shame to simply knock it back. Think about what happened for the 50 being selected was a hole in the right Espresso and see bottom that I and is written. There's so much to know. He developed the University of coffee its headquarters in the northeastern port city of yesterday. There are more than 140 V can affect the final result in the cop said yes rule DiStefano Giannini is a sort of coffee professor. What exactly is if you consider from letting espresso means under pressure. This is the way we instruct the coffee Italians invented this highly calibrated method of preparation versus the beings must be roasted around just right are self imports coffee beans about two dozen different countries any given time has run 100,000 bags of it on hand.

That is enough to brew more than 650 million cups of coffee that seems just about enough to fuel the city of Naples which brings us back and see your local there is a bit of competition here among different Italian city who has the best golf okay indeed espresso is brewed under pressure with a fair dose of passion and pride. I'm Jane Pauley. Thank you for listening and please join us again next Sunday morning progress and crazy time is the point is we people in the best way to protect people final season Millstream