Word: tattiness
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...Tatti is styled in the "Renaissance System" of a central main house surrounded by smaller buildings and outlying farmlands, according to Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Dante Della Terza, a member of the villa's advisory committee. On approximately 50 acres of farmland, four families reside in small houses and tend to the crops...
Harvard has operated the farms, an old part of the estate, since Berenson left I Tatti to the University in 1950. The crop yield raises a small profit for the villa, helping subsidize the salaries of several office workers there...
...That's their life. Many of them were born on the land and have lived all their life there. They love it" is how Director of Budgets Robert Rotner describes I Tatti's relationship with the workers...
...Tatti's farms are administered by a fattore, who negotiates the terms of the farmer's employment. Ackerman translates this word as "bailift" and likens the official to the overseer on a Southern plantation...
...think Harvard made [the laborers terms] better or worse" when it inherited I Tatti. Rotner says, calling mezzadria a harmomous relationship" between the villa and the four families...