Hemingway and the Harvard Poets ed. by Fondazione Luca

This book comes out of the desire to tell the story of six young American men who, as World War I in Europe became more brutal, decided to enroll as volunteer ambulance drivers and sail overseas in the name of freedom. They arrived in Bassano del Grappa in the conflict's last year and were quartered at Villa Ca' Erizzo. They became known as "The Harvard Poets" because some of them had published a collection of poetry once they graduated from the renowned university, which came to represent the response to the war by America's educated classes. Brought together by love for poetry and painting, thirst for adventure, and youthful zeal, the six young men considered the ambulance as a privileged spot from which to observe the world, and the war as a cruel and inexhaustible source of inspiration. In addition to describing the heroic efforts and love troubles of the future Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway and his hospital companion Henry Serrano Villard, this volume reveals the Bassano escapades of four "veteran" colleagues of theirs: John Dos Passos, Sydney Fairbanks, Dudley Poore, and John Howard Lawson. The reader will be taken on a journey through history and literature, travelling back in time to that fateful year 1918, when Bassano and Ca' Erizzo became crossroads for the U.S. cultural élite of the next decades.

Publisher: Museo Hemingway e della Grande Guerra-Fondazione Luca Onlus Publication Year: 2020

Edizione: Italian and English

On Hemingway’s Trail in the Veneto ed. by Fondazione Luca

On Hemingway’s Trail in the Veneto is the second volume of the series edited by Fondazione Luca and published by Hemingway and the Great War Museum.

Although Hemingway is most often associated with Chicago, Florida, the Paris of the 1920s, Spain, Cuba and Africa, Italy was equally important in his life and work – and especially the Veneto. “I’m an old Veneto boy myself. I love it and know it quite well” Hemingway once wrote to the American art critic Bernard Berenson, who lived at Fiesole. It was the Veneto which gave Hemingway his first brush with war at the Austrian front in he First World War (A Farewell to Arms), and Venice which provided him with inspiration after the Second World War (Across the River and Into the Trees), and helped him to recuperate after he was seriously injured in two plane crashes while on safari in Africa in the 1950s. His love of Italy never left him. “Sometimes I think we only half live over here. The Italians live all the way” Hemingway wrote to his sister Marcelline after his return from the Italian-Austrian front in 1919. Richard Owen

Publisher: Museo Hemingway e della Grande Guerra-Fondazione Luca Onlus Publication Year: 2017

Edizione: Italian and English

Hemingway and The Great War ed. by Fondazione Luca

Edited by Fondazione Luca, Hemingway and The Great War is the first volume of the new series published by the Museum. The book illuminates aspects of the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, focusing on the time he spent near the river Brenta in 1918, his meetings with the Arditi, his experience as a volunteer of the American Red Cross and the many ways in which his participation in the first world conflict influenced his writing. Historian of the Great War Paolo Pozzato describes the key stages of World War I, shedding light on the armies’ formations and deployments, the soldiers’ passion, the rearguards’ worries, the tragedy of the refugees. The book includes dozens of previously unpublished archival pictures from the museum’s exhibition.

Publisher: Museo Hemingway e della Grande Guerra-Fondazione Luca Onlus Publication Year: 2016

Edizione: Italian and English

Hemingway Americani e Volontariato. In Italia nella Grande Guerra by Giovanni Cecchin

In 1918, Ca’ Erizzo became the seat of Section I of the American Red Cross ambulance units. John Dos Passos, Sydney Fairbanks, and Dudley Poore were among the many Harvard students who were quartered in the villa. In October of that year, Ernest Hemingway also stayed in the villa. His 1919 short story “The Woppian Way” or “The Passing of Pickles McCarty” (included in the book) mentions Ca’ Erizzo and the Arditi, the elite assault troops who were based at Bassano at the time. Written by one of the most respected experts on the American participation in the first world conflict in Italy, this volume contains rare archival photographs and documents providing insight into the people and places Hemingway encountered when he served as an ARC volunteer.

Publisher: Collezione Princeton Publication Year: 1999

Edizione: italiano

Fiesta: the sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties ad expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic ad irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves. Powerful, intense, visually magnificent, Fiesta is the novel which established Ernest Hemingway as a writer of genius.

Publisher: Arrow Books Publication Year: 2004

Edizione: English

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

A young American volunteers for the Italian ambulance in the First World War. Up near the front he meets and falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. Amidst the fear, chaos, comradeship and courage, his wartime experience becomes one of intense disillusionment when he is wounded by a shell and later narrowly escapes being shot by the Italian 'battle police' while taking part in a general retreat. He makes the monumental decision to desert - and takes Catherine with him to Switzerland. An unsurpassed novel of war - drawn from Hemingway's own experiences - and a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion. A FAREWELL TO ARMS is unforgettable, classic Hemingway.

Publisher: Arrow Books Publication Year: 2004

Edizione: English

Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway

"I remember seeing the lion looking yellow and heavy-headed and enormous against a scrubby-looking tree in a patch of orchard bush and P.O.M. kneeling to shoot him. Then there was the short-barrelled explosion of the Mannlicher and the lion was going to the left on a run, a strange, heavy-shouldered, foot-swinging, cat run. I hit him with the Springfield and he went down...".

Returning to his love of the African continent and its wildlife, Hemingway captures brilliantly the thrill and excitement of the hunt for big game.

Publisher: Arrow Books Publication Year: 2004

Edizione: English

For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels. For Whom The Bell Tolls is Hemingway's finest novel, aa passionate evocation of the pride and the tragedy of the Civil War that tore Spain apart.

Publisher: Arrow Books Publication Year: 2004

Edizione: English

Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway

The war is just over. In Venice, a city elaborately and affectionately described, Richard Cantrell, an American colonel, falls passionately in love with Renata, a young Italian countess who has “a profile that could break your or anyone else's heart.” Cantrell is embittered, war-scarred, old enough to be Renata's father but is overwhelmed by the selflessness and freshness of the love she is offering. But this is no fairy tale. The fighting may be ended, but the wounds of war have not yet healed. And for some, the longed-for peace has come too late.

Publisher: Arrow Books Publication Year: 2004

Edizione: English

The First Forty-nine Stories by Ernest Hemingway

A collection of Hemingway’s first forty-nine short stories, featuring an introduction by the author and lesser known as well as familiar tales, including “Up in Michigan”, “Fifty Grand”, and “The Light of the World”, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Winner Take Nothing and Men Without Women collections.

Publisher: Arrow Books Publication Year: 2004

Edizione: English

The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. In a perfectly crafted story, which won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives. 

Publisher: Arrow Books Publication year: 2004

DVD Museo Hemingway e della Grande Guerra

An elegant building from the 15th century in Bassano del Grappa, Villa Ca' Erizzo-Luca is situated on the eastern riverbank of the Brenta river, near “Ponte Vecchio,” the wooden bridge designed by Andrea Palladio. Now the seat of Fondazione Luca’s Ernest Hemingway and The Great War Museum, during World War I the villa was populated by volunteers of Section One of the American Red Cross, including Hemingway. The future Nobel prize-winner and all the other volunteers who stayed in the villa in 1918, most of whom Harvard students and alumni, wrote about it. The museum was born to tell their stories and provide archival documentation about the United Stated during the first world conflict, contributing to the enhancement of the prestigious image Ernest Hemingway bestowed on Italy and Veneto during his many visits to Belpaese.

Produced by Chiaroscuro – Film Direction by Mauro Riga - Cinematography by Mauro Riga, Francesca Lori, Tomas Annunzi, Davide James Giacomini Annunzi – Film Editing by Francesca Lori, Mauro Riga - Runtime 26 min Release Year: 2016

Edizione: Italian and English

DVD Ernest, mio nonno

TIZIANO BULLATO INTERVIEWS JOHN HEMINGWAY

John Hemingway is a fifty-year-old man with brown eyes. He is wearing a grey suit with a white shirt open at the neck. Although it is October, the weather is still warm. We wander around the park of Villa Ca’ Erizzo-Luca, an elegant building along the Brenta river who is going to be turned into a museum dedicated to his grandfather and his participation in World War One. The villa, which was the seat of Section One of the American Red Cross, hosted, among many other ARC volunteers, Ernest Hemingway. At the time a nineteen-year-old man, Hemingway did not know he was to become one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and contributed to award the Nobel Prize for Literature to Hemingway in 1954.

Produced by Videomedia spa - Interview by Tiziano Bullato – Film Direction by Stefano Maltauro – Cinematography by Marco Prà – Film Editing by Daniele Mastrotto - Runtime 41’ 28’’ Release Year: 2015

Edizione: Italian

Slipcase

Handsome slipcase including 18 postcards portraying Ernest Hemingway and Villa Ca' Erizzo Luca along with the DVD Museum Hemingway and the Great War.