Word: rondinaia
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...move through the pages of The Golden Age. He has been, for the past half-century, an uncommonly public literary figure: a near ubiquitous television guest and, twice, an unsuccessful candidate for elective office. Living well is Vidal's revenge, which he does much of each year at La Rondinaia, his spectacular house in Ravello perched 200 ft. above the Amalfi coast. His mornings are customarily spent writing in a room filled with leatherbound copies of all his books and framed magazine covers bearing his face...
...move through the pages of "The Golden Age." He has been, for the past half-century, an uncommonly public literary figure: a near ubiquitous television guest and, twice, an unsuccessful candidate for elective office. Living well is Vidal's revenge, which he does much of each year at La Rondinaia, his spectacular house in Ravello perched 200 feet above the Amalfi coast. His mornings are customarily spent writing in a room filled with leatherbound copies of all his books and framed magazine covers bearing his face...
...fact, by most outward measure, Vidal's present life is close to the last chapter in an Alger novel-updated by Gore Vidal. He spends eight or nine months each year at La Rondinaia...
Night life at Ravello is generally subdued. Visitors to La Rondinaia have included Princess Margaret, the Newmans, Andy Warhol and Mick and Bianca Jagger, but Vidal spends most evenings alone, reading until 3 a.m.-usually research for what he will write the next...
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