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Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton CBE (5 July 1904 – 27 February 1994) was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, history and autobiography. During his stay in China, he studied the Chinese language, traditional drama, and poetry, some of which he ...
Harold Mario Mitchell Acton (Florencia, 5 de julio de 1904 - 27 de febrero de 1994) fue un escritor y erudito británico. Biografía [ editar ] Villa La Pietra, en Florencia, es desde 1994 sede de un campus de la Universidad de Nueva York .
28 de feb. de 1994 · A tribute to the writer and connoisseur who was a leader of the Aesthetes and a friend of Gertrude Stein, Evelyn Waugh and Robert Byron. Learn about his exotic family background, his literary achievements, his parties and his love for Italy.
1 de mar. de 1994 · Sir Harold Acton, a scholar, poet and historian who was legendary as the consummate esthete of his generation, died on Sunday at his family's Renaissance villa on a hillside overlooking...
Harold Acton. El británico Harold Mario Mitchell Acton, un erudito que dejó huella en el mundo de las letras, nació el 5 de julio de 1904 en la ciudad italiana de Florencia. Hoy, a fin de repasar su historia y renovar el interés general por su legado literario, haremos foco en su figura.
Harold Acton was a British writer and scholar. His works include The Last Medici (1932), The Bourbons of Naples, 1734-1825 (1956), and two memoirs, Memoirs of an Aesthete (1948) and More Memoirs of an Aesthete (1970).
Harold Acton was an admirer of the Peking Opera and befriended some of its actors. He invited the company of Han Shih-Ch’ang (in Pinyin: Han Shichang 韩世昌) to his house. Many photos were taken of the actors in their different roles in the porch of Acton’s house in Peking between 1936 and 1939.
