THIS autumn will see the publication of the diary of the last eleven years of Bernard Berenson’s life, between the ages of eighty-two and ninety-three. By that time, however vital and eclectic a man ...

Nineteen eighty-eight marked the hundredth anniversary of Bernard Berenson’s first coming into Italy. The event was crucial in Berenson’s biography, but its import goes far beyond this private meaning ...

"The core of the present volume consists of the papers presented at the conference 'Bernard Berenson at Fifty,' held at I Tatti from 14 to 16 October 2009." Contents Bernard Berenson and Jean Paul ...

MY FIRST recollection of B.B. dates from nearly fifty years ago, when he was in his early forties and I a child of eight. As I drove with my mother up to the little Tuscan wood of aromatic cypress and ...

ONE YEAR’S READING FOR FUN (166 pp.)—Bernard Berenson—Knopf ($5). The late Bernard Berenson called World War II a “manquake” and calmly retired to his book-lined storm cellar—the 50,000-volume library ...

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the notself that there is no self left to die. —Bernard Berenson At 94, the great “B.B.” had been failing for more than a year.

" Few would have predicted that Bernard Berenson, from a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family, would rise above poverty. Yet Berenson left his crowded home near Boston's railyards and transformed ...

Like certain wines that lose their flavor beyond the region in which they were produced, Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) makes sense only in the context of the Belle Époque, which formed him and which he ...

Like most gossip, Colin Simpson’s Artful Partners is at first blush fascinating. Like most gossip, however, it does not stand scrutiny well. It presents its information in a manner which precludes ...