Word: ivancich
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Adriana Ivancich, 53, aristocratic Venetian socialite and prizewinning artist of dust covers for Ernest Hemingway's books, who as a beauty of 18 was beloved of the aging, alcoholic writer and inspired Renata, the heroine of his 1950 novel, Across the River and into the Trees; by her own hand (she hanged herself from a tree); at her farm in Capalbio, Italy. In a 1980 book, The White Tower, she contended that the love story had been more a father-daughter relationship than a May-December scandal...
...Daughter, how complicated can life be?" Very, she would answer: "I tried to remain on the razor's edge, because had I asked, you would have thrown yourself from a wall for me." Ernest Hemingway did not go quite that far to prove his love for young Adriana Ivancich, but he did write her some 2,000 letters between 1949 and 1955, and he immortalized her as Renata in Across the River and into the Trees (1950). Years later, stung by inferences in a Hemingway biography, Ivancich, now Countess Von Rex, 50, says that she "felt it was time...