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Myron P. Gilmore, professor of History, will leave Friday for an intensive two-week trip to Italy in connection with the recently acquired Villa I Tatti, willed to the University in October by the late Bernard R. Berenson...
...hope," Gilmore explained, "that people interested in the ideals Berenson stood for and in the program we want to set up, will provide this money through special gifts to the University...
...estimated $2 million needed to establish the center will not come from funds of the Program for Harvard College, according to Gilmore. And since Berenson left an endowment large enough only to maintain the library and physical plant of I Tatti, any special research fellowships will have to be financed separately...
When famed Art Critic Bernard Berenson (Harvard '87) died last autumn at 94, he left his alma mater one of the world's great altars to art-his own legendary villa, / Tatti* nestled in the Tuscan hills near Florence. Last week Harvard formally accepted the $1,000,000 estate, launched plans to fulfill Berenson's dream of making / Tatti a humanistic-studies center for scholars of all nations. Next year Harvard hopes to begin sending up to 20 scholars at a time to the 40-room villa, which Berenson called "a library with living rooms attached...
...week's end, Harvard planned a quiet solicitation among Critic Berenson's loyal friends, who know most about the style in which he hoped Harvard would carry...