Villa Solitaria is a house on the island of Capri, Italy, built between 1907 and 1910 by the writer, engineer and botanist Edwin Cerio without a predetermined plan, working directly with local masons so that each window would frame a particular view of the surrounding landscape. The house has ceramic floors decorated with lilies and thistles and biblical inscriptions, and the futurist writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti praised it as one of Italy's first Futurist houses for its verticality and spatial innovation. From 1914 to 1924 the Scottish writer Compton Mackenzie rented the villa, which overlooks the Faraglioni rock formations, and it became a gathering place for English writers including D. H. Lawrence and W. B. Yeats. The villa received Italian monumental protection status in 1993 and was sold in 2022 to Benoit Duplat and Cristiano Leone, though the previous owning family retains rights of access to family graves on the property. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Villa Solitaria, also known as Casa Solitaria or La Solitaria, is a national historic house built between 1907 and 1910 via del Pizzolungo on the island of Capri (Naples, Italy) by Edwin Cerio (1875-1960), a prominent Italian writer, engineer, architect, historian, and botanist Surrounded by cliffs and mediterranean plants, isolated yet a few minutes away from Capri's vibrant central piazzetta, it overlooks the most famous rocky stacks in the Mediterranean, the Faraglioni.
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It filled it with lilies and thistles ceramic floors, and quotes inspired by the biblical Song of Songs' poetry. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of the Futurism movement in 1909, and credited with spurring the rise of Italian modern architecture and city planning, described La Solitaria as one of the first futurist house of Italy for its verticality, spatial and visual innovations.
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Villa Solitaria, also known as Casa Solitaria or La Solitaria, is a national historic house built between 1907 and 1910 via del Pizzolungo on the island of Capri (Naples, Italy) by Edwin Cerio (1875-1960), a prominent Italian writer, engineer, architect, historian, and botanist
Surrounded by cliffs and mediterranean plants, isolated yet a few minutes away from Capri's vibrant central piazzetta, it
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Villa Solitaria, also known as Casa Solitaria or La Solitaria, is a national historic house built between 1907 and 1910 via del Pizzolungo on the island of Capri (Naples, Italy) by Edwin Cerio (1875-1960), a prominent Italian writer, engineer, architect, historian, and botanist
Surrounded by cliffs and mediterranean plants, isolated yet a few minutes away from Capri's vibrant central piazzetta, it
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one of the first futurist house of Italy
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