Word: tatti
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...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...