Three extraordinary ambassadors

by Harold Acton

Harold Acton, as an Anglo-American who has spent most of his life in Florence, writes of these men and the Italy of their time with delicate humor and ripe scholarship. All three portraits are extremely entertaining and are supported by an evocative selection of contemporary illustration.

64 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1984

About the author

Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton was a British writer, scholar and dilettante who is probably most famous for being believed, incorrectly, to have inspired the character of "Anthony Blanche" in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited (1945).