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Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was named yesterday as director of the Villa I Tatti, the University's new center for humanistic studies near Florence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Murdock Named To Head I Tatti Research Center | 3/15/1961 | See Source »

Despite disappointments arising from increased economic and servicing pressures, the University did acquire several major additions. Included in the acquisitions was Bernard Berenson's bequest of I Tatti, his villa near Florence. With his gift came a collection of more than 50,000 books and perhaps 300,000 photographs which he had assembled there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buck Declares Library Lacks Sufficient Funds | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

Berenson's library adds to the two foreign units that the Library owns in South Africa and in Cubs. According to Buck, I Tatti will be "indispensible" to the institute for Italian art and culture to be established there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buck Declares Library Lacks Sufficient Funds | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

This is Bernard Berenson's swan B.B. died in I Tatti, the Florence villa which he willed to Harvard, after correcting the book's proofs. Composed of his diaries during summer journeys from to 1956, this work is suffused by the astoundingly fresh response to the and masterworks...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Berenson's Life-Enhancing Art | 9/30/1960 | See Source »

...late Bernard Berenson called World War II a "manquake" and calmly retired to his book-lined storm cellar-the 50,000-volume library he had amassed 'at his famed Tuscan villa, / Tatti, near Florence. This took a certain amount of fatalism in wartime Italy, Nazi Germany's ally, since Berenson was born a Jew (he was converted to Roman Catholicism), and his only safety lay in a promise from Mussolini's son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, that he would not be molested. The master pundit of Renaissance art, his ailing wife Mary (who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Landscape of the Mind | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

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