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...University's latest foreign acquisition, Bernard Berenson's Villa I Tatti, is to be used as a center where promising scholars would be given adequate freedom and tools for research...
...discourse on the technical and the sacred in modern civilization, a selection whose mixture of brevity and pretentiousness reminded me of the one-page Great Thinker articles Vanity Fair used to run--Gide on Art and Mass Myths in twelve one-sentence paragraphs. There is a reminiscence of Bernard Berenson as a sort of a Catholic by John Walker, Director of the National Art Gallery, and two articles by graduate students--one an inadequate discussion of the Syllabus of Errors by Valda Vanek, and the other an armchair commentary on the Kennedy Administration by John Ratte, a teaching fellow...
...Tatti was long the residence and workshop of Bernard Berenson. Left to the University in Berenson's will, the villa will become a research center for scholars studying the history and culture of the Mediterranean world, particularly in the field of the Italian Renaissance, for which the I Tatti library is famous...
Despite disappointments arising from increased economic and servicing pressures, the University did acquire several major additions. Included in the acquisitions was Bernard Berenson's bequest of I Tatti, his villa near Florence. With his gift came a collection of more than 50,000 books and perhaps 300,000 photographs which he had assembled there...
...Berenson's library adds to the two foreign units that the Library owns in South Africa and in Cubs. According to Buck, I Tatti will be "indispensible" to the institute for Italian art and culture to be established there...