Villa Lysis

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Villa Lysis — initially called La Gloriette, today also known as Villa Fersen — is a villa on Capri built by industrialist and poet Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen in 1905. “Dedicated to the youth of love” (dédiée à la jeunesse d’amour), it was Fersen’s self-chosen exile from France after a sex scandal involving Parisian schoolboys and nude (or nearly nude) tableaux vivants.
Architecturally, the house is mainly Art Nouveau with many Neoclassical elements, the Style might be called “Neoclassical decadent.” The well-known Latin inscription above the front steps (AMORI ET DOLORI SACRVM, “a shrine to love and sorrow”) highlights Fersen’s Romantic view of himself. “Lysis” is a reference to the Socratic dialogue Lysis discussing friendship, and by our modern notion, homosexual love.
The house had the last maintenance work done in 1934, and therefore was essentially in ruins by the 1980s. In 1985, Villa Lysis passed into possession of the Italian state, but it was only in the 1990s that the building was restored by Lysis Funds Association (founded in 1986) and the Municipality of Capri. The Tuscan architect Marcello Quiriconi supervised the work.
Since the restoration, Villa Lysis has been open to tourists. It is also available to rent for parties and dinners and cultural events have taken place there, e.g. an exhibition of photographs by Wilhelm von Gloeden in 2009. However, as of March 2010, Villa Lysis has been put up for sale for &Euro;7,000,000, so it might become private property again if a buyer can be found. The house is listed as having a size of 450 m² with a 12,000 msq Garden.

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