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Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton CBE (5 July 1904 – 27 February 1994) was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, history and autobiography. During his stay in China, he studied the Chinese language, traditional drama, and poetry, some of which he translated.
Harold Acton nació en 1904 en Villa La Pietra, en Florencia (Italia). Su padre, Arthur Mario Acton, fue un artista frustrado que, gracias a la fortuna de su esposa, Hortense Mitchell, heredera del Illinois Bank and Trust, se convirtió en un ávido coleccionista de arte. Tuvo un hermano más joven, William, que tuvo un cierto éxito como ...
Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton, CBE, born 5 July 1904 was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete.Acton was born to a prominent Anglo-Italian-American family of baronets, later raised to the peerage as Barons Acton of Aldenham at Villa La Pietra, near Florence, Italy. His father was the successful art collector and dealer Arthur Acton. At Eton College, he became a founding member of the Eton ...
Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton was born at Villa la Pietra, his family's estate near Florence, Italy, on July 5, words, to "excite rage in the hearts of the Philistines." Force officer, and philanthropist, Acton's true vocation was that of an aesthete with a mission, in his own.
Author of Nancy Mitford, The last Medici, The Bourbons of Naples, 1734-1825, The last Bourbons of Naples (1825-1861), Five saints and an appendix, Memoirs of an aesthete, Modern Chinese poetry, Three extraordinary ambassadors
At the Crossroads: Peking Opera in Taiwan Today. Ching-hsi Perng. Art, History. 1989. For quite some time now, many theatre-lovers in Taiwan-laymen as well as scholars and critics-have been witnessing with considerable anxiety the general decline of the "traditional" theatre. Their….
Harold Acton (Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton, 1904-1994) Acton, a raconteur and aesthete, was a writer, scholar, and aesthete. He was born at the Villa La Pietra in Florence, Italy, the son of American heiress Hortense Mitchell, and Englishman Arthur Mario Acton. A younger brother, William, a gay artist of modest achievement, died an apparent ...
