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Physical description x 350 p 16 p of plates ill ports 24 cm Subjects Origo Iris 19021988 Critics Italy Biography English Italy Biography
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Iris Origo was one of those rare characters who despite being born with a platinum spoon in her mouth went on to accomplish great things In Origos case she managed to add light and color to everything she touched and left for posterity a legacy of work biography autobiography and literary criticism that have become recognized as classics of their kindShe was born into a wealthy and longestablished Long Island family the Cuttings but her talented and beloved father who resembled more than a little a character right out of Henry James died of consumption when she was only nine She spent the following years traveling the world with her mother and an extensive entourage settling finally at the Villa Medici at Fiesole and entering into the privileged world of wealthy AngloFlorentine expatriates whose likes included the Berensons Harold Acton Janet Ross and Edith Wharton and whose petty bickering and pettier politics had a profound influence on how she spent her lifeHer marriage to Antonio Origo a wealthy landowner and sportsman was as much a reaction to this insular world as it was a surprise to her family and friends Together they purchased and singlehandedly revived an extensive arid valley in Tuscany called Val dOrcia rebuilding the farmsteads and the manor house Although clearly sympathetic to Mussolinis land use policies they sided firmly with the Allies during World War II taking considerable risks in protecting children sheltering partisans and repatriating Allied prisonersofwar to their unitsCaroline Moorehead has made extensive use of unpublished letters diaries and papers to write what will surely be considered the definitive biography of this remarkable woman She has limned a figure who was brave industrious and fiercely independent but hardly saintly What emerges is a portrait of one of the more intriguing attractive and intelligent women of the last century
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Iris Origo was one of those rare characters who despite being born with a platinum spoon in her mouth went on to accomplish great things In Origos case she managed to add light and color to everything she touched and left for posterity a legacy of work biography autobiography and literary criticism that have become recognized as classics of their kindShe was born into a wealthy and longestablished Long Island family the Cuttings but her talented and beloved father who resembled more than a little a character right out of Henry James died of consumption when she was only nine She spent the following years traveling the world with her mother and an extensive entourage settling finally at the Villa Medici at Fiesole and entering into the privileged world of wealthy AngloFlorentine expatriates whose likes included the Berensons Harold Acton Janet Ross and Edith Wharton and whose petty bickering and pettier politics had a profound influence on how she spent her lifeHer marriage to Antonio Origo a wealthy landowner and sportsman was as much a reaction to this insular world as it was a surprise to her family and friends Together they purchased and singlehandedly revived an extensive arid valley in Tuscany called Val dOrcia rebuilding the farmsteads and the manor house Although clearly sympathetic to Mussolinis land use policies they sided firmly with the Allies during World War II taking considerable risks in protecting children sheltering partisans and repatriating Allied prisonersofwar to their unitsCaroline Moorehead has made extensive use of unpublished letters diaries and papers to write what will surely be considered the definitive biography of this remarkable woman She has limned a figure who was brave industrious and fiercely independent but hardly saintly What emerges is a portrait of one of the more intriguing attractive and intelligent women of the last century
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About the brand Gowns and cocktails for that special night Iris Cutwork Midi Dress in navy Approximately 50in from shoulder to hem Zipper closure 100 polyester Dry clean only Imported
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A classic of World War II here in its first American edition War in Val dOrcia is Iris Origos elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce a manor in a Tuscan nomans land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil warWith the immediacy only a diary can have the book tells how the Marchesa Origo an AngloAmerican married to an Italian landowner kept La Foce and its farms functioning while war threatened to overrun it and its people She and her husband managed to protect their peasants succor refugee children from Genoa and Turrin hide escaped Allied prisoners of warand somehow stand up to the Germans who in dread due course occupied La Foce in 1944 and forced the Marchesa to retreat under a hot June sunFleeing eight impossible miles on foot along a mined road under shell fire with sixty children in tow she sheltered her flock in the dubious safety of a nearby village A few days later official Fascism disappeared and La Foce was ransacked by the retreating Wehrmacht Here as the restoration of La Foce begins her book endsBeyond praise and above mere documentary value War in Val dOrcia belongs to the literature of humanity
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A classic of World War II here in its first American edition War in Val dOrcia is Iris Origos elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce a manor in a Tuscan nomans land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil warWith the immediacy only a diary can have the book tells how the Marchesa Origo an AngloAmerican married to an Italian landowner kept La Foce and its farms functioning while war threatened to overrun it and its people She and her husband managed to protect their peasants succor refugee children from Genoa and Turrin hide escaped Allied prisoners of warand somehow stand up to the Germans who in dread due course occupied La Foce in 1944 and forced the Marchesa to retreat under a hot June sunFleeing eight impossible miles on foot along a mined road under shell fire with sixty children in tow she sheltered her flock in the dubious safety of a nearby village A few days later official Fascism disappeared and La Foce was ransacked by the retreating Wehrmacht Here as the restoration of La Foce begins her book endsBeyond praise and above mere documentary value War in Val dOrcia belongs to the literature of humanity
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A classic of World War II here in its first American edition War in Val dOrcia is Iris Origos elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce a manor in a Tuscan nomans land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil warWith the immediacy only a diary can have the book tells how the Marchesa Origo an AngloAmerican married to an Italian landowner kept La Foce and its farms functioning while war threatened to overrun it and its people She and her husband managed to protect their peasants succor refugee children from Genoa and Turrin hide escaped Allied prisoners of warand somehow stand up to the Germans who in dread due course occupied La Foce in 1944 and forced the Marchesa to retreat under a hot June sunFleeing eight impossible miles on foot along a mined road under shell fire with sixty children in tow she sheltered her flock in the dubious safety of a nearby village A few days later official Fascism disappeared and La Foce was ransacked by the retreating Wehrmacht Here as the restoration of La Foce begins her book endsBeyond praise and above mere documentary value War in Val dOrcia belongs to the literature of humanity
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The gardens and estate of La Foce constitute one of the most important and best kept early twentiethcentury gardens in Italy Amid 3500 acres of farmland in the countryside near Pienza with sweeping views of the Tuscan landscape La Foce was the childhood dream garden of the late writer Marchesa Iris Origo Passionate about the order and symmetry of Florentine gardens Origo and her husband Antonio purchased the dilapidated villa in 1924 soliciting the help of English architect and family friend Cecil Pinsent to reawaken the natural magic of the property Pinsent designed the structure of simple elegant boxedged beds and green enclosures that give shape to the Origos shrubs perennials and vines and created a garden of soaring cypress walks native cyclamen lawns and wildflower meadows It is by all accounts a remarkable achievementToday the garden is a place of unusual and striking beauty a green oasis in the barren Siena countryside Situated in the Val dOrcia a wide valley in southeastern Tuscany that seems to exist on a larger wilder scale than the rest of the Tuscan landscape it is run by Benedetta and Donata Origo and is open to the public one day a weekLa Foce A Garden and Landscape in Tuscany is a contemplative multifaceted study of the house gardens and estate of La Foce It includes a historical essay and memoir by the daughter of La Foces creators Antonio and Iris Origo along with photographs sketches and a critical analysis of the gardens The volume not only focuses on the beauty of the gardens themselves and their indisputable merit as fascinating works of landscape architecture but also sees them within the context of both the larger Tuscan topography and the wider landscape of geography and history The book will be a delight to armchair travelers trade and landscape architects gardeners and those interested in Tuscan culture
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Francesco di Marco Datini the 14thcentury Tuscan merchant who forms the subject of the Marchesa Origos study has now probably become the most intimately accessible figure of the laterMiddle Ages In 1870 the whole astonishing cache containing some 150000 letters and great numbers of business documents came to light The Marchesa Origo has drawn on this material to paint in detail a picture of Italian domestic life on the eve of the Renaissance
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The autobiography of Iris Origo this book recounts her childhood divided between three different worlds New York Ireland and Italy her marriage to Antonio Origo and her work with refugee children feeding partisans and helping Allied prisonersofwar during the German occupation
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Fascinatingthoughtprovokingcolorfuland written in exquisite style Kirkus ReviewsLike an American heiress in a tale by Henry James Iris Origo 19021988 was born into a world of unfair advantages of education money environment and opportunity She used her birthright wisely traveling the world studying art with Berenson and with her Italian husband improving the land and the lot of peasants in the Val dOrcia of Tuscany She tells her life story in Images amp Shadows and the result is a small classic Origo recreates the lost mad world of Bernard Berenson and his AngloAmerican artistic coterie in Florence She is also marvelous at nuances of place and personality writing with a subtle mingling of candor and affection that lingers in the mind Fiona MacCarthy
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A gripping unpublished diary from the bestselling diarist and biographer with an introduction by Lucy HughesHallett Iris Origo one of the twentieth centurys great diarists was born in England in 1902 As a child she moved between England Ireland Italy and America never quite belonging anywhere It was only when she married an Italian man that she came to rest in one country Fifteen years later that country would be at war with her own With piercing insight Origo documents the grim absurdities that her adopted Italy underwent as war became more and more unavoidable Connected to everyone from the peasants on her estate to the US ambassador she writes of the turmoil the danger and the dreadful bleakness of Italy in 19391940 Published for the first time A Chill in the Air is the account of the awful inevitability of Italys stumble into a conflict for which its people were ill prepared With an introduction by Lucy HughesHallett the awardwinning author of The Pike and an afterword by Katia Lysy granddaughter of Iris Origo this is the gripping precursor to Origos bestselling classic diary War in Val dOrcia
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The autobiography of Iris Origo this book recounts her childhood divided between three different worlds New York Ireland and Italy her marriage to Antonio Origo and her work with refugee children feeding partisans and helping Allied prisonersofwar during the German occupation
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