Iris Origo Marchesa of Val D'Orcia.
Boston: David R. Godine, 2002. Item #1110
8vo. 230 x 155 mm., [9 x 6 inches]. [viii], 373 [1] pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and 24 black and white illustrations in the text. Bound in white linen cloth spine over blue paper boards, dust jacket. Near fine copy.
First American edition. Award winning biography of Iris Origo, daughter of Anglo American parents, brought up in England and America by her grandparents, and wife of a minor Italian aristocrat. The story covers her early years as a privileged young girl, her education, her marriage to Antonio Origo, her move to the Val d'Orcia and the reconstruction of her estate La Foce before and during the War years. Of particular importance was her and Antonio's navigation of mine field of the Italian facism and coming war. The biography is based on unpublished letters, diaries, and papers and is considered a definitive work on Origo's life and provides a vivid account of Italy during the war years.
Price: $50.00