Iris Origo (1902-1988) was a British-born biographer and writer. She lived in Italy and devoted much of her life to the improvement of the Tuscan estate at La Foce, which she purchased with her husband in the 1920s. During WWII, she sheltered refugee children and assisted many escaped Allied prisoners of war and partisans in defiance of Italy's fascist regime and Nazi occupation forces. Pushkin Press also publishes her war diaries War in Val D'Orcia, as well as two of her biographies Leopardi: A Study in Solitude; The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron and Teresa Guccioli.
Elegant and intelligent Spectator A wonderful writer... Images and Shadows is as delicious and tear-inducing as Downton Abbey New York Times An elegiac autobiography... illuminating Telegraph Self-effacing and cultivated... gently percipient Kirkus Reviews A true cosmopolite of vast energy and stunning intelligence New York Times A masterly biographer here recounts her own story, and in this biography she is at her best -- Raymond Mortimer
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