Garbo acted like a man... and Margaret was far too intelligent for the Royals Gore Vidal remembers the amazing people who have stayed at his Italian villa... and tells why he's ending a 30-year love affair

From: Mail on Sunday | Date: August 10, 2003| Author: WENDY LEIGH | Copyright information

Gore Vidal's love affair with Ravello started in February 1948, when he and Tennessee Williams drove there from Naples in a US Army jeep. Although the two great hopes of American literature spent only a day in the romantic town perched above the Amalfi coast, Vidal was rendered speechless by its beauty.

He was not the first to fall for Ravello the names on the roll- call of former residents are just the type of people who would appeal to America's most patrician man of letters.

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