"La guerra a devastato . . ."

In 2004 the original typescript of an exquisite but unpublished essay written in 1944 by the art historian Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy was placed in Antonetti's hand for comment, for safekeeping, and, if he were interested, for some sort of action. Ruth Kennedy was an important and well-loved member...

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Published in:The Massachusetts review 2011-10, Vol.52 (3/4), p.621
Main Author: Antonetti, Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Art history
Essays
Historians
Kennedy, Ruth
Literary criticism
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Summary:In 2004 the original typescript of an exquisite but unpublished essay written in 1944 by the art historian Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy was placed in Antonetti's hand for comment, for safekeeping, and, if he were interested, for some sort of action. Ruth Kennedy was an important and well-loved member of the Smith College community since the 1920's, when she and her husband, Clarence, both professors in the art department, pioneered the college's study-abroad program in Florence. Among other things Antonetti shares that White Magic for Giovano, so different from Ruth's formal scholarly work in art history, was an elegy of sorts, refracting the memories of her housekeeper and friend Enue Lotti as she tried to make sense of the momentous social and physical changes that were then taking place in her beloved Gioviano, a hilltop village in the Garfagnana, the lovely upland district stretching nortward from Lucca along the Serchio River.
ISSN:0025-4878
2330-0485