Adriana Ivancich () was an Italian poet and a
noblewoman
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of
Croatian origin. She was also known for her romantic relationship with the writer
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized fo ...
.
Biography
Adriana Ivancich met
Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized f ...
in 1948 when she was 18 and the writer nearly 50. Despite his marriage, Hemingway fell in love with her, spending time with her in
Venice
Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are li ...
and Cuba. They met for the last time in Italy in May 1954.
Ivancich inspired the figure of Renata in Hemingway's 1950 novel ''Across the River and into the Trees'', which was set in Venice. She provided illustrations for the cover of that book as well as for the 1952 first edition of ''The Old Man and the Sea''.
In 1953, Ivancich published a collection of her own poems, ''Ho guardato il cielo e la terra'' (Mondadori), with Hemingway's enthusiastic support. In 1980, she published her own account of her time with Hemingway, ''La Torre Bianca.'' In 1983, she committed suicide.
Selected works
* Adriana Ivancich, ''Ho guardato il cielo e la terra'' Milan, Mondadori, 1953.
* Adriana Ivancich, ''La Torre Bianca,'' Milan, Mondadori, 1980.
* Andrea di Robilant, ''Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse,'' New York, Knopf, 2018
References
Works cited
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Writers from Venice
Ernest Hemingway
1930 births
1983 suicides
1983 deaths
Muses (persons)
20th-century Italian poets
Italian women poets
20th-century Italian women writers
Suicides in Italy
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