Iris Origo

For too long, says Iris Origo in this intimate study of a writer and his work, Ignazio Silone was “undervalued both as a thinker and a writer” in his Italian homeland. Today at sixty-six, the author of such powerful and lasting books as BREAD AND WINEand SCHOOL FOR DICTATORSis enjoying prestige long due him, and as co-editor of the magazine TEMPO PRESENTE,scans the political and social scene. The author of this portrait is a close friend of Silone’s. Her several biographical works include LEOPARDIand THE LAST ATTACHMENT.

An American by birth, Marguerite Chapin Caetani, during her life in Paris and Rome, became one of the great patrons of letters and the editor of two famous periodicals published at her own expense, COMMERCEand BOTTEOHE OSCURE.We are happy to publish this memorial portrait written by her intimate friend the biographer IRIS ORIGO,author of LEOPARDI, THE MERCH YNT OF PRATO, THE WORLD OF SAN BERNARDINO,and THE LAST ATTACHMENT,a brilliant account of Byron‘s love affair with Countess Guiccioli.

An American by birth, IRIS ORIGO and her husband, Marchese Antonia Origo, made their farm in. Tuscany a stronghold of the Italian underground during the war. She is widely respected as a biographer, and her books include a life of Leopardi; THE LAST ATTACHMENT, a brilliant account of Byron’s love affair with Countess Guiccioli; and two biographies of fourteenth-century Italy, THE MERCHANT OF PRATO and THE WORLD OF SAN BERNARDINO. The essay which follows is her introduction to SUNSET AND TWILIGHT: FROM THE DIARIES OF 1947-1958, by Bernard Berenson, to be published by Harcourt. Brace & World.

An American by birth who with her husband, the Marchese Antonio Origo, took a daring part in the Italian underground during the war, IRIS ORIGO was an admirer and dear friend of Bernard Berenson. A biographer by choice, her books include a life of Leopardi, a short study of Byrons daughter, andTHE LAST ATTACHMENT,an account of Byron’s love affair with Countess Guiccioli.

An American by birth, who with her husband the Marchese Antonio Origo look a leading part in the Italian underground during the war, IRIS ORIGOhas done most of her writing on their farm in Tuscany and in Rome. She is a biographer by choice, and her books include a life of Leopardi, a short study of Byron’s daughter, and THE LAST ATTACHMENT, an account of Byron’s love affair with Countess Guiccioli. The essay which follows is drawn from the Ann Radcliffe lecture which the Marchesa delivered in Cambridge last autumn.

American by birth, IRIS ORIGO has done most of her writing in southern Tuscany and in Rome. Her books include a biography of Leopardi; a short study of Byron’s daughter; and THE LAST ATTACHMENT,an account of Byron’s love affair with Countess Guiccioli.

Byron’s letters to Countess Guiccioli, held in private by her family for seventy-five rears, have now been released. Sympathetically edited by MARCHESA IRIS ORIGO,the letters and the day-to-day account of this extraordinary love affair will be published by Scribner’s in September under the title Byron: The Last Attachment. For permission to publish the letters, the Marchesa is indebted to Count Carlo Gamba and the Legal Personal Representative of Lord Byron’s estate. This is the final installment of the Atlantic’s abridgment.

Byron’s letters to Countess Guiccioli, held in private by her family for seventy-five years, have now been released. Sympathetically edited by MARCHESA IRIS ORIGO,the letters and the day-to-day account of tins extraordinary love affair will be published by Scribner’s in September under the title Byron: The Last Attachment. For permission to publish the letters, the Marchesa is indebted to Count Carlo Gamba and the Legal Personal Representative of Lord Byron’s estate. This is the third installment of the Atlantic’s abridgment.

Byron’s letters to Countess Guiccioli, held in private by her family for seventy-jive years, have now been released. Sympathetically edited byMARCHESA IRIS OUTGO,the letters and the day-to-day account of this extraordinary love affair will be published by Scribner’s in May under the title Byron: The Last Attachment, for permission to publish the letters, the Marchesa is indebted to Count Carlo Gamba and to the Legal Personal Representative of Lord Byron’s estate. This is the second installment of the Vtlan tic’s abridgment.

For seventy-five years the Gamba family felt that Byron’s love letters to Countess Teresa Guiccioli were of too intimate a nature to be made public. The collection, recently released, includes 156 of Byron’s letters to Teresa, some of her answers, her unpublished account of his life in Italy, and letters to her from the Shelleys, Lady Blessington, Teresa’s brother Pietro Gamba, who was with Byron in Greece, and many others. From these papersIRIS ORIGOhas reconstructed the true account of Byron’s most important love. For permission to publish the Byron letters the Marchesa is indebted to the Legal Personal Representative of Lord Byron’s estate.