A well-written and affectionate survey, chapter by chapter, of different eras and regions of citrus cultivation in Italy: lemons in Sicily, in the arc around Palermo and on the slopes of Mount Etna; bergamot and citron in Calabria; oranges and lemons grown in defiance of the climate in Liguria and along the westerns shore of Lake Garda; and the use of citrus in all its variety in the aristocratic garden of the Renaissance, in Tuscany and elsewhere.