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...villa, known as I Tatti, is located outside Florence. It contains 40 rooms of which 19 are devoted to a library of over 50,000 volumes. The section of the library devoted to art has been called one of the foremost in the world, while the villa itself is furnished with a large number of works...
...things could contribute more to deepen our understanding of European achievements and problems. Americans would be working in close and daily collaboration with scholars from all over the world studying a culture which is one of the greatest achievements of western man. If Mr. Berenson were to leave I Tatti to Harvard, it would present the University with an extraordinary opportunity and represent a challenge to American education that Harvard should be proud to face. John Coolidge '35 Director of Fogg Museum
Berenson, the greatest living authority on Italian art, has the finest collection of Italian renaissance paintings still in private hands. His Villa I Tatti, located a few miles outside Florence, also contains a scholar's library virtually complete in his field, and a collection of photographs unique in the world...
Sassetta on the Wall. I Tatti is more a court than a residence. At 83, Il Bibi still begins his day at 6, reading or writing or receiving visitors even before he has left his canopied bed. A fine Sassetta Madonna hangs on the wall. Each morning a vase of fresh flowers is brought to Berenson; and each morning his butler must warm his wrist watch to body temperature, lest Il Bibi jump when he straps...
...lived at I Tatti ever since. When World War II broke out, friends urged him to leave. He refused: "Rather than give up these cypresses and olive trees and this light, I would lay down my life." Ambassador William Phillips then got a promise from Count Ciano that "Berenson would never be disturbed." Finally, however, the onrush of the Nazis forced him out. After the war, two young partisans, sent by the Committee of National Liberation, found him in hiding and escorted him back to his cypresses and olive trees, his several servants, and the remote, unruffled life...