Education: Harvard's / Tatti

When famed Art Critic Bernard Berenson (Harvard '87) died last autumn at 94, he left his alma mater one of the world's great altars to art—his own legendary villa, / Tatti* nestled in the Tuscan hills near Florence. Last week Harvard formally accepted the $1,000,000 estate, launched plans to fulfill Berenson's dream of making / Tatti a humanistic-studies center for scholars of all nations. Next year Harvard hopes to begin sending up to 20 scholars at a time to the 40-room villa, which Berenson called "a library with living rooms attached," and there...

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