News - La Foce

Written on 26 November 2018.

Goop - Giardino La Foce

This was once the home of Iris Origo, author of War in the Val d’Orcia (required reading if you’re going to spend any real time in the valley). Today,...

The New York Tomes - Eyewitness to Fascism

Written on 09 October 2018.

The New York Times - Eyewitness to Fascism

Iris Origo's early life sounds like something out of a Henry James novel. Her father, Bayard Cutting, who came from an extremely wealthy American family,...

Written on 02 September 2018.

TDN - Heaven on Hallowed Ground

In 1944, 18 years before I was born, Iris Origo saved my life. In the literal sense, what she really did was to make my life possible. There are hundreds...

Written on 01 September 2018.

The New Yorker - Not a moment too soon: Iris Origo's war diary

It’s almost impossible to imagine a better time to read “A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939–1940,” by Iris Origo, which is being published this...

Written on 05 March 2018.

Memorie di Luce, mostra personale di Giovanna Lysy

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...

Written on 04 March 2018.

London Review of Book

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...

Written on 22 January 2018.

TLS - A need to testify

Iris Origo died in 1988, aged eighty-five. Almost thirty years later, Pushkin Press are printing a hitherto unpublished diary, together with a selection...

Written on 01 December 2017.

Ville e Giardini - Tra campi e crete

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...

Written on 28 October 2017.

The Daily Telegraph - Plain tales from the Tuscan hills

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....

Written on 28 October 2017.

The Guardian - A Chill in the air: An Italian War Diary

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...

Written on 22 October 2017.

Sunday Herald Life - Chronicle of fearful times

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...

Written on 14 October 2017.

The Telegraph Magazine - In enemy territory

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...