San Michele al Tagliamento (Veneto, Italy): Hemingway, his love for Adriana and the Venetian Villa Ivancich
In the tiny village of San Michele al Tagliamento, lost in the middle of nowhere in the Italian Veneto region countryside, an hour drive from Venice, there is a Venetian villa: Villa Mocenigo-Ivancich. It is a Venetian villa like no other as it was the set for the tormented love relationship between the famous American writer, Ernest Hemingway, and what became his literary muse, the 18-yearl old noble Venetian, Adriana Ivancich. It was a life-long love story between them with a tragic end which was descrived in disguise by Hemingway in his novel "Across the river and into the trees". The link between Ernest Hemingway and the Italian Veneto region is quite well known in literature as he often described the areas in the province of Venice in many of his famous books. He actually had come to Italy when he was young during the First World War, and later in life, when he was fifty, in the summer 1948 he actually returned to visit the places where he had volunteerd as an ambulance