107:. He then travelled the world in search of relief from the symptoms of the disease, which killed him in 1910 at the age of 29. Before he died, William wrote to his wife that he wanted their young daughter to grow up in Italy, "free from all this national feeling which makes people so unhappy. Bring her up somewhere where she does not belong, so she cannot have it." Iris and her mother settled in Italy, buying
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prisoners of war trying to cross German lines or simply survive. After the war, she divided her time between La Foce and Rome, where the Origos had bought an apartment in the
Palazzo Orsini, and devoted herself to writing.
174:, published in 1935. A reviewer noted that "an unobtrusive scholarship gives alimentation to a deft power in narrative, and the style is always alive and sometimes very beautiful." She followed this in 1938 with a life of
214:(1335–1410). She also cast light on a little-known facet of medieval and early Italian life in an article, "The Domestic Enemy: the Eastern Slaves in Tuscany in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries".
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Germany) surrendered, helping escaped
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Genesis: Rivista della Società italiana delle storiche, pp. 117–156 (2007, in Italian) at torrossa.com. Accessed 15 December 2017
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La Foce is the birthplace of a chamber music festival held in Iris Origo's memory, organised by her grandson, the cellist
Antonio Lysy.
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was found to be a valuable source for students of
Italian city and mercantile life, based on research in the archives of the merchant
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Cutting travelled to England and the United States, so as to be launched into society in both countries. In 1922, she met
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Obituary: "Marchesa Iris Origo, Byron biographer who helped war's victims"
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Dalla biografia alla storia e ritorno: Iris Origo fra Bloomsbury e Toscana
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David Laskin, "Echoes of History at a Tuscan Estate".
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Antonio and Iris Origo with baby daughter Donata, at
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A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939–1940
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285:Tribune of Rome: A Biography of Cola di Rienzo
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