A Matter of Passion: Letters of Bernard Berenson and Clotilde Marghieri - Hardcover

Berenson, Bernard; Marghieri, Clotilde; Biocca, Dario

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520065271 ISBN 13: 9780520065277

Publisher: Univ of California Pr, 1989

Synopsis

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About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

These letters reveal a hidden side of famed art critic Bernenson (1865-1959). He first met Clotilde Marghieri in 1925, when he was in his 60s, married, and she was a budding journalist-novelist in her early 30s, soon to leave her husband's Neapolitan clan to live in her own house on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. They developed a passionate relationship, corresponding between 1927 and 1955, yet their 1100 surviving letters came to light only in 1981 when Marghieri published a selection translated into Italian. The present lively selection, edited by her grandson, reveals two cultured narcissists who idealize each other, pour out their passions but conceal their deeper motives and emotions. Among the visitors to Berenson's hilltop villa outside Florence, briefly profiled here, are Aldous Huxley, Edith Wharton, Alberto Moravia, Roger Fry, Nancy Mitford, Ignazio Silone. Photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of California Pr
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0520065271
• ISBN 13: 9780520065277
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 350