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...
Writer Iris Origo longed for a verdant, pretty garden at La Foce in arid, windswept southern Tuscany. English landscape architect Cecil Pinsent made...
One of the strangest, most surreal moments in War in Val d’Orcia, Iris Origo’s diary of 1943-44, occurs when the Anglo-American writer, married to a...
Echoes of History at a Tuscan Estate
Iris Origo was a 22-year-old newlywed Anglo-American heiress — as rich, brilliant and innocent as a Henry James...
Iris Origo was a 22-year-old newlywed AngloAmerican heiress - as rich, brilliant and innocent as a Hemy James heroine - when she and her husband, an...
A potted history of ltalian song spanning half a millennium, a complete Bart6k cycle from the Borromeo Quartet and violinist Maxim Vengerov are some...