1. Abruzzi, earthquake in the, 1n.
  2. Alcott, Louisa M., 1
  3. Allegra, Byron’s daughter, 1, 2
  4. America, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  5. Arbuthnot, Elnyth (Contessa Capponi), 1
  6. Ardennes, forest of, 1
  7. Arno, river, 1
  8. Arnold, Dr., 1
  9. Ashburton, Lady, 1, 2
  10. Asquith, Herbert (Earl of Oxford and Asquith), 1, 2, 3
  11. Assiut, 1
  12. Assuan, 1
  1. Bayard, Colonel Nicholas, 1
  2. Bayard, Mr. and Mrs. Robert, 1
  3. Bayard, Mrs. Samuel, 1
  4. Beauvoir, Simone de, 1
  5. Belmont, Mrs. August, 1
  6. Benzon, Contessa Marina, 1
  7. Berenson, Bernard, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
  8. Berenson, Mary, 1
  9. Beresford, Sir Marcus (afterwards Marquess of Waterford), 1
  10. Beresford, Sir Tristram, 1
  11. Bernardino, San, 1
  12. Berrettini, Vera, 1
  13. Bickersteth, G. L., 1
  14. Bishop, Dr. Freddie, 1, 2
  15. Blanc, Pierre, 1
  16. Blaser, Schwester Marie, 1, 2
  17. Blessington, Countess of, 1, 2
  18. Bloch, Marc, 1, 2
  19. Borgatti, Renata, 1
  20. Bori, Lucrezia, 1
  21. Boswell, James, 1
  22. Bourbon del Monte, Marie-Lou, 1, 2
  23. Bowes Lyon, Lilian, 1, 2
  24. Bracci, Testasecca, Contessa Margherita, 1
  25. Brooke, Rupert, 1, 2
  26. Browning, Robert and Elizabeth, 1
  27. Bruce, Lady Mary, 1
  29. Bruce, Robert, King of Scotland, 1
  30. Burke, Edmund, 1
  31. Byron, Lord, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  1. Cadwallader, John, 1
  2. Caetani, Marguerite, Duchessa di Sermoneta, 1
  3. Cagnola, Conte Guido, 1
  4. California, 1, 2
  5. Cambridge, 1
  6. Campbell, Lady Elizabeth, 1
  7. Canada, 1, 2
  8. Canning, Stafford, 1
  9. Capri, 1, 2
  10. Carlyle, Jane, 1, 2
  11. Carlyle, Thomas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  12. Carson, Sir Edward, 1, 2
  13. Caruso, Enrico, 1
  14. Cecil, Lord David, 1
  15. Ceylon, 1
  16. Chaliapin, Fedor Ivanovich, 1
  17. Chamberlain, Neville, 1, 2
  18. Chanler, Laura, 1
  19. Chapman, Dom John, 1
  20. Chatsworth House, 1
  21. Chianciano, 1, 2, 3
  22. Choate, Joseph, American Ambassador, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  23. Churchill, Winston, Rt. Hon. Sir, 1, 2
  24. Clanricarde, Marchioness of, 1
  25. Clanricarde, Ulick Bourke, Marquess of, 1
  26. Clerici, General, 1
  27. Cockerell, Patience, 1
  28. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1, 2
  29. Columbia University, 1, 2, 3
  30. Colvin, Sir Sidney, 1
  31. Combe, Dr., 1
  32. Connetquot, river, 1
  33. Corti, Dr. Gino, 1
  34. Craig, Gordon, 1
  35. Cromwell, Oliver, 1, 2
  36. Crozier, Dr., Bishop of Ossory, 1
  37. Cuffe, Hamilton, see Desart, Earl of
  38. Cuffe, Henry, 1
  39. Cuffe, John, 1, 2
  40. Cuffe, Joseph, 1, 2
  41. Cuffe, Otway, 1, 2
  42. Cutting, Bronson, Senator, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  43. Cutting, Fulton, 1
  44. Cutting, Justine (Mrs. George Ward), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
  45. Cutting, Leonard, 1
  46. Cutting, Olivia (Mrs. Henry James, Jr.), 1, 2, 3, 4
  47. Cutting, Olivia Peyton (née Murray), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
  48. Cutting, Lady Sybil (née Cuffe) marriage 1, 2;
    1. reminiscences of father 1, 2, 3, 4;
    2. birth of daughter 1;
    3. death of husband 1;
    4. description of 1;)
    5. travels of 1;
    6. visits United States 1;
    7. returns to Italy 1;
    8. buys the Villa Medici 1, 2;
    9. marries Geoffrey Scott 1, 2;
    10. divorce 1, 2;
    11. marries Percy Lubbock 1;
    12. health 1;
    13. visits Ceylon 1;
    14. leaves Italy for Switzerland 1, 2;)
    15. death 1
  49. Cutting, William Bayard, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
  50. Cutting, William Bayard Junior, marriage, 1;
    1. childhood 1, 2, 3;
    2. recollections of 1;
    3. describes opening of Parliament 1;
    4. at Messina after earthquake 1;
    5. death 1, 2, 3, 4
  1. D’Annunzio, Gabriele, 1
  2. Dallolio, Elsa, 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  3. Dallolio, General Alfredo, 1
  4. Datini, Francesco, XIVth century merchant, 1, 2, 3
  5. Datini, Margherita, 1
  6. De Robertis, Giuseppe, 1
  7. Degas, Edgar, 1
  8. Desart, Countess of ancestry 1;
    1. description of 1, 2;
    2. engagement and marriage 1;
    3. leaves Ireland for England 1;
    4. death 1, 2, 3;
    5. in Egypt 1;
    6. at Villa Medici 1;
    7. on author’s reading 1;
    8. teaches author the Collects 1
  9. Desart, Earl of, 1;
    1. on engagement of daughter 1, 2;
    2. ancestry 1;
    3. description of, 1, 2, 3;
    4. life of 1;
    5. leaves Ireland for England 1;
    6. golden wedding 1;
    7. death of wife 1;
    8. death 1;
    9. in Egypt 1;
    10. at Villa Medici 1;
    11. letters to Iris during First World War 1, 2
  10. Desart Court, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  11. Diblee, Ben, 1, 2, 3, 4
  12. Disraeli, Benjamin, 1
  13. Dollfuss, Engelbert, 1
  14. Douglas, Norman, 1
  15. Dreyfus Case, 1
  16. Dunne, Brian Boru, 1
  1. Eden, Anthony (Earl of Avon), 1
  2. Edgewater, New Jersey, 1
  3. Egypt, 1, 2, 3, 4
  4. Ena, H.M. Queen of Spain, 1
  5. England, and English, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  6. Essinger, Anne, 1n
  7. Ewing, Mrs., 1
  1. Fascism, 1, 2, 3, 4
  2. Festa, Professor Nicola, 1
  3. Fiesole, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  4. Flint, Miss, 1
  5. Florence, English in 1;
    1. flood in 1; 2n; 3
  6. Foce, La, Tuscan villa and farm 1, 2;
    1. purchase of 1, 2;
    2. farming at 1, 2, 3; 4, 5;
    3. description of 1;
    4. mezzadria system at, 1, 2;
    5. children’s home at 1;
    6. garden at 1
  7. Forster, E. M., 1
  8. Fox-Strangways, Lady Mary, 1
  10. France, and the French, 1, 2, 3, 4
  11. Franceschi, Carla (nee Origo), 1
  12. Fromm, Erich, 1
  13. Fry, Roger, 1
  1. Gamba, Conte Carlo, 1, 2, 3n, 4
  2. Gamba Conte Pietro, 1, 2, 3
  3. Gamba, Conte Ruggero, 1
  4. Gardiner, Gordon, 1, 2, 3
  5. George V, 1
  6. Germany, and Germans, 1, 2, 3, 4
  7. Gherardesca, Conte Giorgio Ugolino della, 1
  8. Gherardesca, Contessa Flavia della, 1
  9. Ghika, Princess, 1
  10. Glendawly, Hugh Hamilton, Lord, 1
  11. Godden, Rumer, 1
  12. Godet, Philippe, 1
  13. Gonnet, Mademoiselle, 1, 2
  14. Gorges, Dorothea (afterwards Lady Desart), 1
  15. Gorges, Richard, 1, 2
  16. Greece, 1, 2, 3, 4
  17. Green, Julian, 1
  18. Guiccioli, Contessa Teresa, 1, 2
  1. Hagemeyer, Paquita, 1
  2. Halifax, Earl of, 1
  3. Hamilton, Nicola Sophia (afterwards Lady Beresford), 1
  4. Harewood House, 1, 2
  5. Harewood, Countess of, 1, 2
  6. Harewood, Earl of, 1, 2, 3
  7. Heath-Stubbs, John, 1, 2n
  8. Hill, Sir James, 1
  9. Hiss, Alger, 1
  10. Hitler, Adolf, 1, 2
  11. Hodel, Fräulein, 1
  12. Hodgson, Robert, 1
  13. Hoover, President, 1
  14. Hopper, Nathalie, 1
  15. Howe, Mark, 1
  16. Hudson, river, 1, 2
  17. Humboldt, Baron Friedrich, 1
  18. Hunt, Leigh, 1, 2
  1. I Tatti, Bernard Berenson’s villa, 1, 2, 3
  2. Ilchester, Earl of, 1
  3. Ireland, 1, 2, 3, 4
  4. Isle of Wight, 1, 2
  1. James, Henry, 1
  2. James, William, 1
  3. Jameson Raid, 1
  4. Jeritza, Maria, 1
  5. John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli), Pope (1958–63), 1
  6. Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  1. Kairouan, 1
  2. Keats, John, 1, 2, 3, 4
  3. Kennedy, John F., 1
  4. Kennedy, Robert, 1
  5. Keppel, the Hon. Mrs. George, 1
  6. Kidd, Captain William, 1
  7. Kilkenny County, 1, 2
  1. Lamartine, A. De, 1
  2. Lamb, Charles, 1, 2
  3. Lascelles, Lady Margaret, see Desart, Countess of
  4. Lawley, Hon. Irene, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  5. League of Nations, 1
  6. Lebreton, Agnes, 1
  7. Lee, Vernon, 1
  8. Leneru, Marie, 1, 2
  9. Leopardi, Giacomo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  10. Leuty, Kate (Doody), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  11. Lindsay, Lady (Frances Hoyt), 1
  12. Lister, Charles, 1
  13. Livingstone, Robert, 1
  14. Loeser, Charles, 1
  15. London, 1, 2
  16. Long Island, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  17. Longworth, Alice, 1
  18. Lubbock, Percy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  1. MacCarthy, Desmond, 1, 2, 3
  2. Mackenzie, Compton, 1, 2, 3
  3. Mackenzie, Faith Compton, 1
  4. MacLeish, Archibald, 1
  5. Masefield, Mrs. John, 1
  6. Mauriac, François, 1
  7. Maurois, André, 1, 2
  8. Maynard, Walter, 1
  9. Mazzei, Jacopo, 1, 2n
  10. Mazzei, Ser Lapo, 1, 2n
  11. Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1
  12. Meade, Charles, 1. 2
  13. Meade, Lady Aileen, 1
  14. Meade, Simon, 1
  15. Medici, Cosimo de’, 1, 2n
  16. Medici, Giuliano de’, 1
  17. Medici, Lorenzo de’, 1
  18. Medici, Villa, 1, 2
  19. Mengaldo, Cavalier Angelo, 1n.
  20. Messina, earthquake at, 1
  21. Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1
  22. Metropolitan Opera House, 1, 2
  23. Michelozzo, 1
  24. Midleton, Earl of, 1, 2
  25. Milan, 1, 2
  26. Mill, John Stuart, 1
  27. Molesworth, Mrs., 1
  28. Monte Amiata, 1, 2, 3, 4
  29. Montepulciano, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  30. Monti, Professor Solone, 1, 2, 3
  31. Moore, Thomas, 1
  32. Morelli, Giovanni di Pagolo, 1, 2, 3n
  33. Morgan, Pierpont, 1
  34. Morra di Lavriano, Conte Umberto, 1
  35. Morris, William, 1
  36. Munthe, Dr. Axel, 1
  37. Mussolini, Benito, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  1. New Amsterdam, 1
  2. New Jersey, 1, 2
  3. New Mexico, 1
  4. New York, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
  5. Nicolson, Hon. Sir Harold, 1, 2
  6. Nigg, Mademoiselle, 1, 2, 3, 4
  7. Nijinsky, V., 1
  8. Nile River, 1, 2
  1. O’Brien, Connor, 1
  2. O’Grady, Mrs. Standish, 1
  3. Ojai, The, Californian paper, 1, 2
  4. Orford, Lady, 1
  5. Origo, Marchese Antonio, engagement 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. visits England 1;
    2. marriage 1;
    3. buys La Foce 1;
    4. farming at La Foce, 1, 2, 3, 4;
    5. forms landowner’s association, 1, 2;
    6. visits Lucerne 1;
    7. at time of Italy’s entry into war 1;
    8. becomes Mayor of Chianciano 1
  6. Origo, Benedetta, 1, 2, 3
  7. Origo, Marchese Clemente, 1
  8. Origo, Donata, 1, 2, 3
  9. Origo, Gianni, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
  10. Origo, Iris, governesses and tutors 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
    1. holidays at Desart Court 1, 2;
    2. on writing 1, 2, 3;
    3. on family relationships 1;
    4. ancestry 1, 2;
    5. engagement to Antonio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
    6. recollections of paternal grandparents, 1, 2;
    7. on her son Gianni 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
    8. relations with maternal grandfather 1;
    9. marriage 1, 2;
    10. birth 1;
    11. recollections of father 1, 2;
    12. in Egypt 1, 2;
    13. death of father 1, 2 3, 4;
    14. recollections of mother 1;
    15. early travels 1;
    16. first journey to United States 1, 2;
    17. in First World War 1, 2, 3;
    18. mother remarries 1;
    19. recollections of Geoffrey Scott 1;
    20. outbreak of Second World War 1, 2;
    21. daughter Benedetta 1, 2;
    22. childhood in Italy 1;
    23. daughter Donata 1, 2;
    24. early reading 1;
    25. confirmed 1;
    26. coming out (in America) 1,
    27. (in England) 1,
    28. (in Italy) 1, 2;
    29. appearance 1;
    30. first meeting with husband 1;
    31. books on Leopardi 1, 2;
    32. book on Byron 1, 2;
    33. book on Datini 1, 2, 3;
    34. other books 1;
    35. buys La Foce 1;
    36. first years at La Foce, 1, 2;
    37. approach of war 1;
    38. helps Jewish refugees 1;
    39. on Fascism 1;
    40. effect of Italy’s entry into war 1;
    41. war work, 1, 2;
    42. during German occupation 1, 2;
    43. works with American Red Cross 1;
    44. on post-war changes at La Foce 1;
    45. founds children’s home 1;
    46. making garden at La Foce 1;
    47. on friendships 1;
    48. on beliefs 1
  12. Origo, Marchesa Rosa, 1
  13. Orwell, George, 1
  14. Ouchy, 1
  1. Paget, Lady, 1
  2. Papafava dei Carraresi, Conte Francesco, 1
  3. Pascal, Blaise, 1, 2
  4. Pasolini dell’ Onda, Conte and Contessa, 1
  5. Pasternak, Boris, 1
  6. Pavlova, 1
  7. Peabody, Dr., 1
  8. Pearsall Smith, Logan, 1
  9. Phillips, William, American Ambassador in Rome, 1, 2n, 3
  10. Pinsent, Cecil, 1, 2, 3, 4
  11. Placci, Carlo, 1
  12. Plato, 1
  13. Plomer, William, 1n.
  14. Plowman, Max, 1
  15. Poer, Katherine de la, 1
  16. Poland, 1
  17. Polyectoff, Paolina, Marchesa Origo, 1, 2
  18. Pontine Marshes, 1
  19. Portofino, 1
  20. Proust, Marcel, 1
  1. Quakers, 1
  2. Quarr Abbey, 1
  3. Quebec, 1
  1. Rangone, Conte Francesco, 1n.
  2. Rauschning, Hermann, 1, 2n
  3. Ravenna, 1
  4. Read, Sir Herbert, 1
  5. Recanati, 1
  6. Redmond, John, 1
  7. Robeck, Nesta de, 1
  8. Rome, 1, 2, 3, 4
  9. Roosevelt, Franklin, 1
  10. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1, 2
  11. Ross, Janet, 1
  12. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1
  13. Royce, Josiah, 1
  14. Rutland, Duke of, 1
  1. Sablé-sur-Sarthe, 1
  2. Sanceaux, Mademoiselle, 1
  3. Sandburg, Carl, 1
  4. Santa Fé, 1
  5. Santayana, George, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  6. Schweitzer, Dr. Albert, 1
  7. Scott, Geoffrey, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  8. Selincourt, Basil de, 1
  9. Serpieri, Professor Arrigo, 1
  10. Sestri Levante, 1
  11. Shakespeare, William, 1
  12. Shelley, Percy B., 1, 2, 3
  13. Shields, Dr. Thomas, 1
  14. Signorini, Signora Ines, 1, 2, 3
  15. Smith, Sidney, Rev., 1
  16. Snow, C. P., 1
  17. Solesmes, Abbey of, 1
  18. South America, 1
  19. Spain, 1, 2
  20. Spender, Stephen, 1
  21. St Moritz, 1, 2
  22. Stanhope, Lady Hester, 1
  23. Stephen, Leslie, 1
  24. Strachey, Lytton, 1, 2, 3
  25. Strong, Charles, 1
  26. Stuyvesant, Peter, 1
  27. Switzerland, 1, 2, 3, 4
  1. Thomson, James, 1
  2. Thorold, Algar, 1
  4. Tolstoy, Count Leo, 1
  5. Torelli, Cavaliere Luigi, 1n.
  6. Toscanini, Arturo, 1, 2
  7. Trench, Herbert, 1, 2, 3
  8. Trevelyan, Robert, 1
  9. Trevor-Roper, Professor Hugh, 1
  10. Tunisia, 1
  11. Tuscany, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
  12. Twain, Mark, 1, 2, 3
  13. Tyrone, Lord, 1
  1. United States, 1, 2
  1. Vaccari, Professor, 1
  2. Val d’Orcia, 1, 2;
    1. history of 1;
    2. farming in 1;
    3. customs in 1;
    4. war comes to 1;
    5. post-war changes in 1
  3. Val di Chiana, 1, 2, 3
  4. Valentino, Italian chauffeur, 1
  5. Valtancoli, Angelo, 1n.
  6. Verleth, Judith, 1
  7. Verney, Desmond, 1, 2
  8. Verney, Joy (Hon. Mrs.G.Hamilton Russell), 1
  9. Verney, Lady Joan, 1, 2, 3, 4
  10. Verney, Lt.-Colonel Ulick, 1, 2
  11. Verney, Major-General Gerald, 1, 2
  12. Verney, Major-General Gerald, 1, 2
  13. Vevey, 1
  14. Vittos, Dr., 1
  15. Voltaire, F.-M. Arouet de, 1
  1. Wagner, Richard, 1
  2. Walcott, Senator, 1
  3. Walpole, Horace, 1
  4. Walsh, Alice, 1
  5. Walter, Bruno, 1
  6. Ward, George, 1, 2
  7. Washington, 1, 2
  8. Weibel, Fräulein, 1, 2
  9. Weil, Simone, 1
  10. Wenlock, Constance, Lady, 1
  11. West, Rebecca, 1
  12. Westbrook, 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  13. Wharton, Edith, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  14. White, Stanford, 1
  15. Wilde, Oscar, 1
  16. Winthrop, Egerton, 1
  17. Woolf, Leonard, 1
  18. Woolf, Miss, 1, 2, 3
  19. Woolf, Virginia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  20. Wortley Montagu, Lady Mary, 1
  1. Yeats, William Butler, 1, 2, 3
  2. Yonge, Charlotte, 1, 2
  3. Yucatan, 1
  1. Zanotti Bianco, Senatore Umberto, 1