Iris Origo
Born: August 15, 1902
Died: June 28, 1988 (aged 85)
Bio: Dame Iris Margaret Origo, Marchesa of Val d'Orcia, née Cutting, was an English-born biographer and writer. She lived in Italy and devoted much of her life to improving the Tuscan estate at La Foce, near Montepulciano, which she bought with her husband in the 1920s.
Known for:
- War in Val d'Orcia (1947)
- The Merchant of Prato (1957)
- Images and Shadows (1970)
- Leopardi (1935)
- Need to Testify, A (1984)
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