Word: tuscans
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...century-old landscape.) A staffer at the villa explains that visitors cannot see the library for fear of disturbing the scholars who are “hard at work,” somehow escaping the temptation to pluck lemons from the villa’s trees in the sunny Tuscan weather. The massive library collection at their disposal seems at least as tempting—150,000 volumes and 300,000 photographs, including some of the most rare and significant tomes for Renaissance art history scholars...
...culture and the arts—one otherwise all too rare at this University. At first glance, the Villa would be an easy candidate for critique by most undergraduates, who might, with some justification, ask why Harvard can’t provide them a decent gym when it has Tuscan villas lying around. Villa i Tatti ate up a hefty $5 million of the University’s total budget in a recent year, and it employs a staff of about 50—including chefs, gardeners, librarians and security guards. A guide at the villa commented casually that Harvard...
...responsibility: to those who directly use its resources, but also to the culture and society it indirectly studies and honors. If anything, Harvard could use more centers like this—and should increase openness by better publicizing the important work that goes on here. And keep paying those Tuscan gardeners well. Those lemons looked pretty juicy...
Visitors to Italy who limit their trips to a tour of Tuscan villas or a stint in Rome have no idea of what they're missing. Why not leave the mainland behind and take a short flight?or the ferry from Naples?to the rugged, romantic and historically resonant island of Sicily...
...word of warning, however: with everything from the Tuscan hills to Ipanema beach listed in loving detail, reading 1,000 Places to See Before You Die is not going to be easy if you're deskbound?before you open it, ensure your passport and credit card are in working order...