Memoirs of an aesthete, 1939-1969

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Memoirs of an aesthete, 1939-1969

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Harold Acton

Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Explanatory and Apologetic
memoirs
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Index
photos

Citation preview

Memoirs~Aesthete

by the same author MEMOIRS OF AN AESTHETE

(1904-1969)

PRINCE ISIDORE THE LAST MEDICI THE BOURBONS OF NAPLES THE LAST BOURBONS OF NAPLES OLD LAMPS FOR NEW

MEMOIRS OF AN AESl~HETE 1 939- 1 969

Harold Acton

New Yark

The Viking Press

Published in England under the title of More Memoirs of an Aesthete Copyright © 1970 by Harold Acton All rights reserved Published in 197 l by The Viking Press, Inc. 625 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10022 SBN 670-46816-9 Library of Congress catolog card number: 74-138490 Printed in Great Britain Bound in U.S.A.

To the memory of my mother and co my friend John Cullen, who prompted me to write these memoirs

Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACK!'