Berenson’s Elixir
Simon Schama, 1 May 1980
Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur
by Ernest Samuels.
Harvard, 477 pp., £9.50, June 1979,0 674 06775 4 Show More
by Ernest Samuels.
Harvard, 477 pp., £9.50, June 1979,
Being Bernard Berenson
by Meryle Secrest.
Weidenfeld, 473 pp., £8.50, January 1980,0 297 77564 2 Show More
by Meryle Secrest.
Weidenfeld, 473 pp., £8.50, January 1980,
“... such marginal representatives of the Civilised Life as Harry S. Truman, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (whose presence was, BB felt, ‘life-enhancing’), and, most improbable of all, Ernest Hemingway. Meryle Secrest discloses that Hemingway was desperate in his suit for Berenson’s favours, and would have prostrated himself for a petal from the Great ... ”