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When Bernard Berenson died in Italy in 1960 he willed Harvard the Villa I. Tatti, just outside of Florence, Italy, which has one of the best collections of Italian art. Harvard is currently a trustee of I. Tatti, and despite a $2.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation ($1.5 million of which is a challenge grant which Harvard must match) the Italian inflation rate has galloped ahead at such a rate that the University needs a total of $4 million if it is ever to sufficiently endow the villa as a study center...
...appointment to the Corporation, Kane advised Conant on educational policy issues. On the Corporation, he was known for his fundraising and his special concern for Harvard's non-Cambridge outposts, like the Byzantine Studies Center at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington and Renaissance research center at Villa I Tatti, near Florence, Italy...
Craig M. Smyth, director of New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, will become the new director of Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies located near Florence, Italy...
...Villa I Tatti was bequeathed to Harvard in 1959. It supports its own fellows and visiting scholars and contains a large library and photograph collection...
...payable over a period of years to provide staffing for the Center. The Medical School also has other large building needs. And we are still $800,000 short of the $2 million in added endowment we have been seeking for the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Villa I Tatti, Bernard Berenson's famous home near Florence. But even here there is no end to the list; for already other needs begin to appear...