La Foce: Paradise in Tuscany

Book presentation, by its author, Katia Lysy

This is about a  Renaissance villa and classically inspired twentieth-century garden, at the dawn of its hundredth anniversary—once a barren Tuscan estate brought to life through the extraordinary vision and determination of Iris and Antonio Origo. Katia Lysy is the granddaughter of Iris Origo, the writer of an acclaimed war diary about her role, and that of her husband, in making La foce a haven of resistance during the Nazi-Fascist occupation of Tuscany.