Images and Shadows

by Iris Origo

  letters to Iris during First World War 1, 2

  Desart Court, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Diblee, Ben, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Disraeli, Benjamin, 1

  Dollfuss, Engelbert, 1

  Douglas, Norman, 1

  Dreyfus Case, 1

  Dunne, Brian Boru, 1

  Eden, Anthony (Earl of Avon), 1

  Edgewater, New Jersey, 1

  Egypt, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Ena, H.M. Queen of Spain, 1

  England, and English, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Essinger, Anne, 1n

  Ewing, Mrs., 1

  Fascism, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Festa, Professor Nicola, 1

  Fiesole, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Flint, Miss, 1

  Florence, English in 1; flood in 1; 2n; 3

  Foce, La, Tuscan villa and farm 1, 2; purchase of 1, 2;

  farming at 1, 2, 3; 4, 5;

  description of 1;

  mezzadria system at, 1, 2;

  children’s home at 1;

  garden at 1

  Forster, E. M., 1

  Fox-Strangways, Lady Mary, 1

  France, and the French, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Franceschi, Carla (nee Origo), 1

  Fromm, Erich, 1

  Fry, Roger, 1

  Gamba, Conte Carlo, 1, 2, 3n, 4

  Gamba Conte Pietro, 1, 2, 3

  Gamba, Conte Ruggero, 1

  Gardiner, Gordon, 1, 2, 3

  George V, 1

  Germany, and Germans, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Gherardesca, Conte Giorgio Ugolino della, 1

  Gherardesca, Contessa Flavia della, 1

  Ghika, Princess, 1

  Glendawly, Hugh Hamilton, Lord, 1

  Godden, Rumer, 1

  Godet, Philippe, 1

  Gonnet, Mademoiselle, 1, 2

  Gorges, Dorothea (afterwards Lady Desart), 1

  Gorges, Richard, 1, 2

  Greece, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Green, Julian, 1

  Guiccioli, Contessa Teresa, 1, 2

  Hagemeyer, Paquita, 1

  Halifax, Earl of, 1

  Hamilton, Nicola Sophia (afterwards Lady Beresford), 1

  Harewood House, 1, 2

  Harewood, Countess of, 1, 2

  Harewood, Earl of, 1, 2, 3

  Heath-Stubbs, John, 1, 2n

  Hill, Sir James, 1

  Hiss, Alger, 1

  Hitler, Adolf, 1, 2

  Hodel, Fräulein, 1

  Hodgson, Robert, 1

  Hoover, President, 1

  Hopper, Nathalie, 1

  Howe, Mark, 1

  Hudson, river, 1, 2

  Humboldt, Baron Friedrich, 1

  Hunt, Leigh, 1, 2

  I Tatti, Bernard Berenson’s villa, 1, 2, 3

  Ilchester, Earl of, 1

  Ireland, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Isle of Wight, 1, 2

  James, Henry, 1

  James, William, 1

  Jameson Raid, 1

  Jeritza, Maria, 1

  John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli), Pope (1958–63), 1

  Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Kairouan, 1

  Keats, John, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Kennedy, John F., 1

  Kennedy, Robert, 1

  Keppel, the Hon. Mrs. George, 1

  Kidd, Captain William, 1

  Kilkenny County, 1, 2

  Lamartine, A. De, 1

  Lamb, Charles, 1, 2

  Lascelles, Lady Margaret, see Desart, Countess of

  Lawley, Hon. Irene, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  League of Nations, 1

  Lebreton, Agnes, 1

  Lee, Vernon, 1

  Leneru, Marie, 1, 2

  Leopardi, Giacomo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Leuty, Kate (Doody), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Lindsay, Lady (Frances Hoyt), 1

  Lister, Charles, 1

  Livingstone, Robert, 1

  Loeser, Charles, 1

  London, 1, 2

  Long Island, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Longworth, Alice, 1

  Lubbock, Percy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  MacCarthy, Desmond, 1, 2, 3

  Mackenzie, Compton, 1, 2, 3

  Mackenzie, Faith Compton, 1

  MacLeish, Archibald, 1

  Masefield, Mrs. John, 1

  Mauriac, François, 1

  Maurois, André, 1, 2

  Maynard, Walter, 1

  Mazzei, Jacopo, 1, 2n

  Mazzei, Ser Lapo, 1, 2n

  Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1

  Meade, Charles, 1. 2

  Meade, Lady Aileen, 1

  Meade, Simon, 1

  Medici, Cosimo de’, 1, 2n

  Medici, Giuliano de’, 1

  Medici, Lorenzo de’, 1

  Medici, Villa, 1, 2

  Mengaldo, Cavalier Angelo, 1n.

  Messina, earthquake at, 1

  Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1

  Metropolitan Opera House, 1, 2

  Michelozzo, 1

  Midleton, Earl of, 1, 2

  Milan, 1, 2

  Mill, John Stuart, 1

  Molesworth, Mrs., 1

  Monte Amiata, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Montepulciano, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Monti, Professor Solone, 1, 2, 3

  Moore, Thomas, 1

  Morelli, Giovanni di Pagolo, 1, 2, 3n

  Morgan, Pierpont, 1

  Morra di Lavriano, Conte Umberto, 1

  Morris, William, 1

  Munthe, Dr. Axel, 1

  Mussolini, Benito, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  New Amsterdam, 1

  New Jersey, 1, 2

  New Mexico, 1

  New York, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Nicolson, Hon. Sir Harold, 1, 2

  Nigg, Mademoiselle, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Nijinsky, V., 1

  Nile River, 1, 2

  O’Brien, Connor, 1

  O’Grady, Mrs. Standish, 1

  Ojai, The, Californian paper, 1, 2

  Orford, Lady, 1

  Origo, Marchese Antonio, engagement 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; visits England 1;

  marriage 1;

  buys La Foce 1;

  farming at La Foce, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  forms landowner’s association, 1, 2;

  visits Lucerne 1;

  at time of Italy’s entry into war 1;

  becomes Mayor of Chianciano 1

  Origo, Benedetta, 1, 2, 3

  Origo, Marchese Clemente, 1

  Origo, Donata, 1, 2, 3

  Origo, Gianni, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Origo, Iris, governesses and tutors 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; holidays at Desart Court 1, 2;

  on writing 1, 2, 3;

  on family relationships 1;

  ancestry 1, 2;

  engagement to Antonio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;

  recollections of paternal grandparents, 1, 2;

  on her son Gianni 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;

  relations with maternal grandfather 1;

  marriage 1, 2;

  birth 1;

  recollections of father 1, 2;

  in Egypt 1, 2;

  death of father 1, 2 3, 4;

  recollections of mother 1;

  early travels 1;

  first journey to United States 1, 2;

  in First World War 1, 2, 3;

  mother remarries 1;

  recollections of Geoffrey Scott 1;

  outbreak of Second World War 1, 2;

  daughter Benedetta 1, 2;

  childhood in Italy 1;

  daughter Donata 1, 2;

  early reading 1;

  confirmed 1;

  coming out (in America) 1,

  (in England) 1,

  (in Italy) 1, 2;

  appearance 1;

  first meeting with husband 1;

  books on Leopardi 1, 2;

  book on Byron 1, 2;

  book on Datini 1, 2, 3;

  other books 1;

  buys La Foce 1;

  first years at La Foce, 1, 2;

  approach of war 1;

  helps Jewish refugees 1;
/>   on Fascism 1;

  effect of Italy’s entry into war 1;

  war work, 1, 2;

  during German occupation 1, 2;

  works with American Red Cross 1;

  on post-war changes at La Foce 1;

  founds children’s home 1;

  making garden at La Foce 1;

  on friendships 1;

  on beliefs 1

  Origo, Marchesa Rosa, 1

  Orwell, George, 1

  Ouchy, 1

  Paget, Lady, 1

  Papafava dei Carraresi, Conte Francesco, 1

  Pascal, Blaise, 1, 2

  Pasolini dell’ Onda, Conte and Contessa, 1

  Pasternak, Boris, 1

  Pavlova, 1

  Peabody, Dr., 1

  Pearsall Smith, Logan, 1

  Phillips, William, American Ambassador in Rome, 1, 2n, 3

  Pinsent, Cecil, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Placci, Carlo, 1

  Plato, 1

  Plomer, William, 1n.

  Plowman, Max, 1

  Poer, Katherine de la, 1

  Poland, 1

  Polyectoff, Paolina, Marchesa Origo, 1, 2

  Pontine Marshes, 1

  Portofino, 1

  Proust, Marcel, 1

  Quakers, 1

  Quarr Abbey, 1

  Quebec, 1

  Rangone, Conte Francesco, 1n.

  Rauschning, Hermann, 1, 2n

  Ravenna, 1

  Read, Sir Herbert, 1

  Recanati, 1

  Redmond, John, 1

  Robeck, Nesta de, 1

  Rome, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Roosevelt, Franklin, 1

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 1, 2

  Ross, Janet, 1

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1

  Royce, Josiah, 1

  Rutland, Duke of, 1

  Sablé-sur-Sarthe, 1

  Sanceaux, Mademoiselle, 1

  Sandburg, Carl, 1

  Santa Fé, 1

  Santayana, George, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Schweitzer, Dr. Albert, 1

  Scott, Geoffrey, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Selincourt, Basil de, 1

  Serpieri, Professor Arrigo, 1

  Sestri Levante, 1

  Shakespeare, William, 1

  Shelley, Percy B., 1, 2, 3

  Shields, Dr. Thomas, 1

  Signorini, Signora Ines, 1, 2, 3

  Smith, Sidney, Rev., 1

  Snow, C. P., 1

  Solesmes, Abbey of, 1

  South America, 1

  Spain, 1, 2

  Spender, Stephen, 1

  St Moritz, 1, 2

  Stanhope, Lady Hester, 1

  Stephen, Leslie, 1

  Strachey, Lytton, 1, 2, 3

  Strong, Charles, 1

  Stuyvesant, Peter, 1

  Switzerland, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Thomson, James, 1

  Thorold, Algar, 1

  Tolstoy, Count Leo, 1

  Torelli, Cavaliere Luigi, 1n.

  Toscanini, Arturo, 1, 2

  Trench, Herbert, 1, 2, 3

  Trevelyan, Robert, 1

  Trevor-Roper, Professor Hugh, 1

  Tunisia, 1

  Tuscany, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Twain, Mark, 1, 2, 3

  Tyrone, Lord, 1

  United States, 1, 2

  Vaccari, Professor, 1

  Val d’Orcia, 1, 2; history of 1;

  farming in 1;

  customs in 1;

  war comes to 1;

  post-war changes in 1

  Val di Chiana, 1, 2, 3

  Valentino, Italian chauffeur, 1

  Valtancoli, Angelo, 1n.

  Verleth, Judith, 1

  Verney, Desmond, 1, 2

  Verney, Joy (Hon. Mrs.G.Hamilton Russell), 1

  Verney, Lady Joan, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Verney, Lt.-Colonel Ulick, 1, 2

  Verney, Major-General Gerald, 1, 2

  Verney, Major-General Gerald, 1, 2

  Vevey, 1

  Vittos, Dr., 1

  Voltaire, F.-M. Arouet de, 1

  Wagner, Richard, 1

  Walcott, Senator, 1

  Walpole, Horace, 1

  Walsh, Alice, 1

  Walter, Bruno, 1

  Ward, George, 1, 2

  Washington, 1, 2

  Weibel, Fräulein, 1, 2

  Weil, Simone, 1

  Wenlock, Constance, Lady, 1

  West, Rebecca, 1

  Westbrook, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Wharton, Edith, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  White, Stanford, 1

  Wilde, Oscar, 1

  Winthrop, Egerton, 1

  Woolf, Leonard, 1

  Woolf, Miss, 1, 2, 3

  Woolf, Virginia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Wortley Montagu, Lady Mary, 1

  Yeats, William Butler, 1, 2, 3

  Yonge, Charlotte, 1, 2

  Yucatan, 1

  Zanotti Bianco, Senatore Umberto, 1

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