Adriana Ivancich

Adriana Ivancich ((1930-01-04)4 January 1930  (1983-03-24)March 24, 1983) was an Italian noble woman and poet. She was also known for her romantic relationship with the writer Ernest Hemingway.[1]

Adriana Ivancich
Born(1930-01-04)4 January 1930
Venice, Veneto
Died24 March 1983(1983-03-24) (aged 53)
Orbetello, Grosseto
GenrePoetry
Notable worksHo guardato il cielo e la terra
La torre bianca

Biography

Adriana Ivancich met Hemingway in 1948 when she was 18 and the writer nearly 50. In spite of being married, Hemingway fell in love with her, spending time with her in Venice and Cuba. They met for the last time in Italy in May 1954.[2]

Ivancich inspired the figure of Renata in Hemingway's novel Across the River and into the Trees, which was set in Venice and published in 1950. She provided illustrations for the cover of that book as well as for the first edition of The Old Man and the Sea.[3]

In 1953, Ivancich published a collection of her own poems, Ho guardato il cielo e la terra (Mondadori), with Hemingway's enthusiastic support.[4] In 1980, she published her own account of her time with Hemingway, La Torre Bianca. In 1983 she died by suicide.[5]

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

  • Knigge, Jobst C. (2012). "Hemmingway's Venetian muse Adriana Ivancich" (PDF). A contribution to the biography of Ernest Hemingway.


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