title: MY MOTHER,MY FATHER and HIS WIFE HORTENSE: Provenance: Villa La Pietra
author: Dialta Alliata-Lensi Orlandi
description: A Florentine, Dialta Lensi Orlandi, now Princess Alliata di Montereale and mother of five, has lived in Honolulu since 1999. In Italy she was the Editor in Chief of the ecological magazine Essere Secondo Natura. She has written, produced, acted and directed in films including Turtles, a poetic love story, and The Princess and the Rooster, on children's etiquette. Dialta is a driving force behind the EuroCinema Hawaii film festival in Honolulu and namesake of the coveted annual award honoring the Best Film of EuroCinema.Below videos of book signings and TV interview of the author: http://vimeo.com/album/2970052 http://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/2014/video/dialta-alliata_2027021
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  My Mother,
  
  My Father and
  
         His Wife Hortense     
  
  
  
  Provenance: Villa La Pietra
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dialta Alliata-Lensi Orlandi C.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ##  “D’ESTATE O D’INVERNO LUNGI O VICINO
  
  IN VITA O IN MORTE”
  
  
  
  “IN SUMMER OR IN WINTER FAR OR NEAR
  
  IN LIFE OR IN DEATH”
  
  
  
  (I love you)
  
  
  
  Written on the forehead, under the breast and at the feet of Arthur Acton’s
  favorite statue of Venus, which is on the terrace at the villa La Pietra.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ###  To Yana, Azzurra, Fabrizio, Mirtilla, and Allia
  
  
  
  In my grandmother Elsie’s days a single pregnant woman was referred to as
  fallen, slipped, tripped, unfortunate, lost, ruined, or sinned. Illegitimacy
  was shameful and not to be spoken about in society. A girl without a husband
  who was going to ha