Venerdì 23 marzo alle ore 18,30 si inaugura la mostra personale dell’artista Giovanna Lysy , nella suggestiva cornice della chiesa di Santa Maria dei Servi a Città della Pieve.

Honest-eyed. Very blue-eyed. She's clean and picks her feet up;' was Virginia Woolf's enigmatic verdict on Iris Origo when they met in the mid-Thirties. What did she mean? Origo was then a clever and elegant, if somewhat aloof, young woman, the daughter of a wealthy American and his aristocratic Anglo-Irish wife...

Il migliore parco privato dello Stivale? Si trova a Chianciano. Questo è il verdetto emesso dal comitato scientifico del premio "Il Parco più bello d'Italia". Il giardino sempre impeccabile di Villa La Foce, uno dei primi biglietti da visita per chi arriva in Valdorcia...

This latest reprint of lris Origo's The Merchant of Prato celebrates it as a 'modem classic', though it can't have seemed very modem when it first ap­peared in 1957. Various books published that year had some kind of finger on the pulse - On the Road, Room at the Top, The Uses of Literacy - but a biography of a...

The best diaries ofthe second world war were written by women, and this is no paradox. Their observation and analysis of events around them deepened with the idea that they were living through a crucial rnoment in history that they felt a duty to record...

Non loin de Montepulciano, à quelque soixante kilomètres au sud de Sienne, face à la masse sombre d'un volcan endormi, La Foce fascine par la beauté éblouissante de ses jardins, la grandeur du paysagequi l'entoure, et l'istoire romanesque qui l'a façonnée.

Iris Origo died in 1988, aged eighty-five. Almost thirty years later, Pushkin Press are printing a hitherto unpublished diary, together with a selection of her other Italian books, some no longer in print.

Iris Origo's life (1902-1988) contained two significant changes in direction. She was born in England but, after falling in love with an Italian marchese she settled in Italy. When her adopted homeland was engulfed by war she refocused her writing, turning from biographies of other people (Byron's daughter Allegra, Giacomo Leopardi) to an account about herself and those around her...

Au sud de Sienne, le Val D’Orcia abrite La Foce, chef-d’œuvre d’équilibre du paysagiste anglais Cecil Ross Pinset. Un jardin associé au Dopolavoro, un restaurant où l'on déguste les produits de ce paysage...

Villa La Foce nel 2017 si è aggiudicata, meritatamente, il Premio di Parco privato più bello d’Italia, titolo che premia sia la sua bellezza originaria sia la cura con cui questa è stata, ed è, preservata dalla proprietà...

Published 70 years ago, War in Val d'Orcia, British-born aristocrat Iris Origo's account of life in Italy during the Second World War, is one ofthe most cherished war diaries in history. Until now however, her earlier diary...

Writer Iris Origo longed for a verdant, pretty garden at La Foce in arid, windswept southern Tuscany. English landscape architect Cecil Pinsent made it a reality...