1.   It shuttles between prewar Egypt and a Tuscan villa turned private hospital in the final days of World War II.

2.   Meant to resemble Venetian palazzos, Georgian country seats, Tuscan villas or French chateaus, they succeed only in looking hugely expensive.

3.   The old houses range from modest colonial farmhouses to palatial antebellum plantation homes and an exotic stuccoed Tuscan villa resting on huge granite blocks.

4.   Tuscan villa at the end of World War II.

5.   Gelli fled his Tuscan villa, where had been under house arrest, a few days before police came to take him to prison in early May.

6.   The exterior horizontal stripes, added by Madonna, were designed to evoke a Tuscan villa.

7.   The novel looks at four characters in a ruined Tuscan villa as the Germans retreat up the Italian peninsula during World War II.

8.   The story involves a priceless art collection, a regal Tuscan villa, an alleged love affair and the exhumation of a long-buried body.