Muzius gordon dietzmann biography for kids
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My summer travels have come to an end with my journey to Ravello.
Muzius gordon dietzmann biography for kids
I arrived in Amalfi with my two teenage daughters and took the winding road up to Ravello to visit Gore Vidal. "Call when you arrive at the piazza," Gore had said on the phone, "and someone will meet you to guide you through the three gates to the house." Our guide turned out to be Muzius Gordon Dietzmann -- perhaps the most beautiful man I've ever seen.
(If you want to judge for yourself, get the DVD of The Life Aquatic. He plays Anjelica Huston's lover.)
Sitting on Gore's terrace, overlooking one of the most breathtaking spots on earth -- what Gore called the heart of Magna Graecia, the part of southern Italy that was colonized by Greeks and later conquered by Romans -- it felt like we were on top of history.
A history of dreams of empire, and of lessons unlearned.
Gore, such a brilliant chronicler of so much of this history, reminded us how foreign t