Villa Brichieri-Colombi
×History
This villa became a major focal point for the Anglo-American community in Florence in the 19th century thanks to the hospitality of Isa Blagden.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning worked it into her novel Aurora Leigh, Nathaniel Hawthorne talks about it in The Marble Faun; and Henry James mentions it in William Wetmore Story and his Friends, while he actually wrote The Aspern Papers here.
Today it is owned by the descendants of Hiram Powers.
