Nino Cesarini

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Antonio Cesarini (30 September 1889 – 24 October 1943), better known by the diminutive name Nino, was a model for several artists, such as the photographer Wilhelm von Plüschow, painters Paul Hoecker and Umberto Brunelleschi and sculptor Francesco Jerace during his youth. In his adulthood he modelled for Vincenzo Gemito, who presented him as a prototype of homoerotic masculine beauty. He was also known for his relationship with Baron Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen. His life was novelized by the French writer Roger Peyrefitte in his work The Exile of Capri (L'exilé de Capri) in 1959.

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Childhood and teenage years Cesarini was born into a working-class family in 1889. According to Peyreffite, Baron Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, who had been forced to leave Paris after a homosexual scandal, met him in Rome on 9 July 1904, when Cesarini was a fourteen-year-old construction worker and newspaper-seller. D'Adelswärd-Fersen obtained authorization from the boy's family to take Cesarini as his secretary with him to Capri. They lived together in Villa Lysis. In order to immortalize his beauty, the Baron commissioned several artists to depict Cesarini. One of them was Umberto Brunelleschi, an Italian painter; another was the German painter Paul Hoecker, also exiled in Italy for the same (sexual) motives as those of d'Adelswärd-Fersen. Finally, d'Adelswärd-Fersen commissioned the famous sculptor Francesco Jerace to cast a statue of Cesarini in bronze, and placed it in the garden of the villa towards the sea. It was also repeatedly photographed by Wilhelm von Plüschow, dressed as a Roman emperor and as a Christian saint. Copies of these photographs were widely circulated and it is possible that even d'Adelswärd-Fersen sold them commercially. The only image of Cesarini's statue by Jerace is von Plüschow's photograph. In 1907, d'Adelswärd-Fersen dedicated his work Une Jeunesse / Les Baiser…Citește mai mult

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Later years Will Ogrinc suggests in his work that as Cesarini matured, d'Adelswärd-Fersen pursued relationships with other young boys. He cites Plüschow's famous photograph as evidence, which shows a naked young man lying on a sofa inside Villa Lysis. On one of the walls, Hoecker's renowned painting, celebrating Cesarini's beauty, is visible. Ogrinc asserts that the naked boy on the couch is not Cesarini, as he appears too young compared to the subject in the painting. Cesarini and d'Adelswärd-Fersen travelled, at least a few times, to countries in the Far East. Apart from some temporary separations, for example during Cesarini's military service and his participation in the First World War, which was followed by a convalescence in hospital due to the injuries he sustained there, Cesarini remained with d'Adelswärd-Fersen until the latter's death despite the fact that, over time, passion was replaced by friendship. According to Roger Peyrefitte, when Cesarini returned from hospital he remained with d'Adelswärd-Fersen only as a friend and secretary, and d'Adelswärd-Fersen's attempts to continue the sexual relationship were rejected by the then-mature Cesarini. By contrast, Ogrinc asserts that this view of Peyrefitte's, apart from not being documented, does not seem realistic, given the preference shown by…Citește mai mult

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One account of his later life states that Cesarini returned to Rome and established a newsstand and bar. Cesarini died in October 1943 at age 54, and was buried in the Roman cemetery of Campo Verano. However, other sources claim that after the sale of his rights to the Villa, together with the inheritance he received, Cesarini was rich enough to retire, as well as cultured and refined (he apparently spoke several languages), which makes it difficult to understand why he decided to sell newspapers in a kiosk. According to this other version, he died of an opium overdose. After his death, his family destroyed all the letters from d'Adelswärd-Fersen, many of his photos and a collection of erotic objects.

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External links Capri – Musik die sich entfernt, oder: Die seltsame Reise des Cyrill K. Archived 2006-10-29 at the Wayback Machine, 1983. — Made-for-TV movie directed by Ferry Radax for the WDR featuring d'Adelswärd-Fersen, Nino Cesarini, and a lot of other historical Capri celebrities. Aldrich, Robert: The seduction of the Mediterranean: writing, art, and homosexual fantasy, Routledge, 1993. ISBN 9780415093125. Villa Lysis on Capri. C.M. d'Ambrosìa, Nino, il sole di Roma, la luna di Capri. Capri, Ed. La Conchiglia 2023. ISBN 9788860911476.