Word: settignano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University is heir to the estate and a major part of the personal belongings of the late Bernard Berenson '87, the CRIMSON learned yesterday. Berenson, renowned art critic, died yesterday morning at the age of 94 in his villa at Settignano, Italy, after a long illness...
Berenson's sharp eye for a genuine masterpiece served him well as he built up the large art collection that now fills his 40-room Settignano mansion. The contents of this villa, most of which have been willed to Harvard, include an extensive library of about 80,000 volumes on art, religion, and history as well as the art collection...
...Once at Settignano, a letter of invitation offering a glimpse at the phenomenon of I Tatti, "if it amuses you," was presented, and the gates swung open upon the heart and soul of Bernard Berenson...
...Italian villa opulently rising from its verdant grounds is enough to stir the most prosaic of imaginations. The English poets eulogized the effect a long time ago and the sensation has not worn thin. But at Settignano, a few miles from the riches of Florence, there is to be found a villa of very special spiritual proportions. It is I Tatti, the home of Bernard Berenson...