The country and the city: vertigo and legendary psychasthenia in Tozzi's Tuscany -- Palazzeschi's Spaces of Difference: the Materassi sisters at the window -- Vasco Pratolini's Florentine spaces of exclusion -- The Stendhal syndrome, or the horror of being foreign in Florence -- 'Going native': Tuscan houses and Italian others in contemporary American travel writing -- The Tuscan countryside: nature and the (non) domestic in Elena Giannini Belotti