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“Fascinating…thought-provoking…colorful…and written in exquisite taste.” – Kirkus Reviews
Like an American heiress in a tale by Henry James, Iris Origo (1902-1988) was once born into an international of “unfair benefits of education, money, environment, and opportunity.” She used her birthright wisely, traveling the arena, studying art with Berenson, and, together with her Italian husband, making improvements to the land and the lot of peasants within the Val d’Orcia of Tuscany. She tells her life story in Images & Shadows, and the result’s “a small classic… Origo recreates the lost mad world of Bernard Berenson and his Anglo-American artistic coterie in Florence. She could also be marvelous at nuances of place and personality, writing with a subtle mingling of candor and affection that lingers within the mind” (Fiona MacCarthy).