Herbert Percy Horne (1864 in London – 1916 in

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, Italy) was an English poet, architect,

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and designer, art historian and antiquarian. He was an associate of the

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in London. He edited the magazines ''

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'' and '' The Hobby Horse'' for the

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, which he founded with fellow architect

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in 1882.

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Horne was closely associated with Arthur Symons and

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and their mistress Muriel (Edith) Broadbent. Later in life he settled in

, restoring a Renaissance palazzo into which he eventually moved. He first visited Italy in 1889 and kept an illustrated journal of his travels and art and architectural research. His monograph on

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from 1908 is still recognised as of exceptional quality and thoroughness.

Death and commemoration

He donated his collection, of arts and handicrafts of the 14th and 15th centuries, to create the '' Museo della Fondazione Horne'' in Florence, where he died. He is buried in the Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori in the southern suburb of

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(Italy). Horne founded the Riccardi Press, a leading British private press that beginning in 1909 issued titles for the Medici Society and later under its own imprint.

Selected publications

* ''Diversi Colores'' (poems). 1891.
''The Binding of Books. An Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Bindings.''
London 1894 * ''Giovanni dal Ponte.'' 1906.
''Alessandro Filipepi, commonly called Sandro Botticelli, painter of Florence.''
1908; reprint: Princeton University Press 1981,

References

*''Rediscovering Herbert Horne: Poet, Architect, Typographer, Art Historian (1880–1920 British Authors Series, No 3)'', Ian Fletcher *

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and Jane Hall, ‘Herbert Horne’s 1889 Diary of his first Journey to Italy’, The Walpole Society, LXIV (2002), pp. 69–125

Death and commemoration

Selected publications

References

Further reading