L'ISOLA EOLIA

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Opere - Volumes 5-6 - Page 230

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Giambattista Vico, ‎Francesco Saverio Pomodoro, ‎Giuseppe Ferrari - 1970 - ‎Snippet view - ‎More editions

... l' Isola Eolia circondala dalf Oceano : dal qual Oceano dovettero venire ingravidate da Zefiro 230.

Sul limitare; poesie e prose por la scuola italiana scolto ... - Page 218

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L'isola Eolia toccammo : nell'isola aveva sua stanza x 1 Eolo l'Ippòtade, caro agli dei non mortali del cielo. L'isola nuota nel mare, ma tutta all'intorno la cinge forte muraglia di bronzo, ed a picco si leva la rupe. Nati da lui nella casa dimorano ...

Atti di Accademia di archeologia, lettere e belle arti

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[Greci usciti nell'Oceano vi distesere l' idea d' ogni mare (1' indeterminato prospetto, onde Omero diceva l'isola Eolia essere cinta dall'0ceano (veramente il poeta chiama l' isola slum] x 3; che il Vice volesse piuttosto ricordare l'isola Aiaia di ...

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I Greci usciti nell'Oceano vi distesero l' idea d' ogni mare d' indeterminato prospetto, onde Omero diceva l'isola Eolia essere cinta dall' Oceano (veramente il poeta chiama l' isola nXwtYj x 3 ; che il Vico volesse piuttosto ricordare l'isola Aiaia ...

Hesperia 7: Studi Sulla Grecita Di Occidente - Page 41

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È pertanto ammissibile che l'assimilazione della favolosa sede del re dei venti - l'isola Eolia galleggiante e circondata da un muro di bronzo o di rame (Od 10, 3-4) - con l'isola principale dell'arcipelago tirrenico corrisponda ad uno dei tanti ...

Orlando furioso di Ludovico Ariosto, secondo l'edizione ... - Page 547

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Lodovico Ariosto, ‎Pietro Papini - 1903 - ‎Read - ‎More editions

8. di Vulcan l'a. f.; l'Etna, per l'intera Sicilia, e non, come credono alcuni, l'isola eolia detta Vulcano, che sarebbe troppo lontana per potere indicare il confine marittimo tra l'Affrica e la Sicilia. Inoltre l' Etna è la famosa alta fornace, dove ...

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Costoro furono detti Eolei, i quali si trova in specie avere abitato l' isola Eolia, oggi Lipari; e Tim abitò Cipri, e Dodamin l'isola di Rodi. I quali figli di Janam, secondo Agostino, nel lib. XVI della Città di Dio, a cap. XI, dal monte Jami i Sicari i ...

Opere storiche inedite sulla citta di Palermo ed altre ...

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Gioacchino Di Marzo - 1872 - ‎Read - ‎More editions

Costoro furono detti Eolei, i quali si trova in specie avere abitato l'isola Eolia, oggi Lipari; e Tim abitò Cipri, e Dodamin l'isola di Rodi. I quali figli di Janam, secondo Agostino, nel lib. XVI della Città di Dio, a cap. XI, dal monte Jami i Sicani ...

Biblioteca storica e letteraria di Sicilia: Opere storiche ... - Page 4

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Costoro furono detti Eolei, i quali si trova in specie avere abitato l' isola Eolia, oggi Lipari; e Tim abitò Cipri, e Dodamin l'isola di Rodi. I quali figli di Janam, secondo Agostino, nel lib. XVI della Città di Dio, a cap. XI, dal monte Jami i Siculi ...

Teatro de gli inventori di tutte le cose. - Napoli, ... - Page 80

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Vincenzo Bruno - 1603 - ‎Read

quali poi da Greci furono chiamati Eoi,onde l'Isola Eolia, lontana dal—2 Efiigíe dell' L'italia sei miglia; SocrateAtheniese,,maestrodiPlatone fù il 'timo barba. .inuentore dell' Etnica, Ecrace Re de ~gli Arabi Medico, _8c Filo oso”; Eqçu'notii.

EOLIA -- HARKNESS (1917) -- Waterford, Long Island Sound, Connecticut, New England --

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Aeŏlus , i, m., = Αἴολος.

I. The god of the winds, son of Jupiter (or Hippotas) and of Menalippa, ruler of the islands between Italy and Sicily, where he kept the winds shut up in caverns, and, at the bidding of Jupiter, let them loose or recalled them, Verg. A. 1, 52: “Aeolon Hippotaden, cohibentem carcere ventos,” Ov. M. 14, 224. —

II. A king in Thessaly, son of Hellen and Doreïs, grandson of Deucalion, father of Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, etc., Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 585.

IN MEMORIAM E. S. HARKNESS

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Edward Stephen Harkness (January 22, 1874 – January 29, 1940) was a philanthropist.

In 1918, Harkness was cited in Forbes magazine in their first "Rich List" as the 6th "richest" person in the United States just behind John D. Rockefeller, Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Carnegie, George Fisher Baker and William Rockefeller.

Edward Stephen Harkness
Born	(1874-01-22)January 22, 1874 Cleveland, Ohio
Died	January 29, 1940(1940-01-29) (aged 66)
Citizenship	American
Net worth	USD $155 million at the time of his death (approximately 1/643rd of US GNP)[1]
Spouse(s)	Mary Stillman
Parents	Stephen V. Harkness, Anna M. Richardson (Harkness)
Relatives	Charles W. Harkness brother, Florence, sister, Lamon V. Harkness half brother

Edward Stephen Harkness was born in Cleveland, Ohio, one of four sons to Stephen V. Harkness, a harness-maker who invested in and was one of the five founding partners in the forerunner of Standard Oil, John D. Rockefeller's oil company.

Harkness inherited a fortune from his father and his brother Charles W. Harkness.

His extensive philanthropies, many of them anonymous, were extended especially to colleges, hospitals and museums.

Harkness was a very shy and retiring individual.

He attended St. Paul's School and Yale University, Class of 1897 and Columbia Law School.

Harkness and his brother Charles and cousin William were members of Wolf's Head Society at Yale.

He was also member of the Jekyll Island Club (aka The millionaires Club) on Jekyll Island, Georgia from 1921-1923.

After graduating, Edward Harkness married Mary Stillman, daughter of wealthy New York attorney Thomas E. Stillman.

Mary's maternal grandfather was George Greenman, a shipbuilder in Mystic, CT and founded George Greenman & Co. Harkness earned an LL.D from Columbia Law School.

Harkness made charitable gifts totaling more than $129 million, the equivalent of $2 billion in 2005 dollars.

His philanthropic peers John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie gave respectively $550 million and $350 million over the course of their lives.

Harkness and his mother, Anna Harkness, gave substantial sums to several important non-profit enterprises.

They refashioned Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital.

Mrs. Harkness, in memory of her husband, gave funds for the hospital's Harkness Pavilion.

Harkness was a major benefactor of the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The museum's initial art of Ancient Egypt collection was a gift from Harkness.

Harkness's elder full-brother Charles W. Harkness died in 1916, and left Edward approximately $170 Million in Standard Oil stock making Edward the 3rd largest stockholder.

In 1917 Anna Harkness, their mother, donated $3,000,000 to Yale to build Harkness Memorial Quadrangle in memory of her son, C. Harkness.

In 1918 Anna Harkness established the Commonwealth Fund by an initial gift of $10,000,000, and Harkness was made its president.

Edward's home, Harkness House circa 1908 at 5th Avenue and 75th Street (just three blocks from Mary Stillman Harkness's childhood home at 9 E 78th St, New York, NY ) is now the offices of the Commonwealth Fund.

Edward and Mary Harkness had a number of homes in addition to Harkness House in New York.

They spent summers at their Eolia mansion on Long Island Sound in Waterford, Connecticut near where Mary had visited her grandparents in the summers in Mystic.

The home and 230 acres (93 ha) of gardens and grounds are now maintained by Connecticut as Harkness Memorial State Park.

Also, a home on Long Island called "Weekend" joined homes in North Carolina and California, and a camp in the Adirondacks.

 

Harkness House in New York, now home of The Commonwealth Fund

 

 

Harkness Eolia Mansion in Waterford, CT

The Harkness family made many contributions to education including:

-- St Salvator's Hall at the University of St Andrews.
-- Harkness Chapel at Connecticut College
-- Butler Library at Columbia University as well as
-- the original portions of the Columbia University Medical Center and the undergraduate dormitories at Brown University, Harvard University, Yale University, and Connecticut College - all of these were built through his philanthropy or the philanthropy of Mary Stillman Harkness.

His philanthropy affected substantially several boarding schools, introducing the revolutionary Harkness table method of instruction, starting with Phillips Exeter Academy, and spreading to St. Paul’s, The Lawrenceville School, and Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford, Conn. Harkness also made gifts to Taft School, Hill School and Phillips Academy.

He established the Harkness Fellowships and founded the Pilgrim Trust in the UK in 1930 with an endowment of just over two million pounds, "prompted by his admiration for what Great Britain had done in the 1914-18 war and, by his ties of affection for the land from which he drew his descent."

The current priorities of the trust are preservation, places of worship, and social welfare.

He also made the gifts that established the Yale School of Drama and erected its theatre.

In the popular culture, Harkness, along with another wealthy neighbour, Edward Crowninshield Hammond, were the inspiration for Eugene O'Neill's off-stage character "Harker", the "Standard Oil millionaire", in Long Day's Journey into Night, and on-stage figure "T. Stedman Harder" in A Moon for the Misbegotten.

Sources

• NNDB

References

1. Jump up ^ Klepper, Michael; Gunther, Michael (1996), The Wealthy 100: From Benjamin Franklin to Bill Gates—A Ranking of the Richest Americans, Past and Present, Secaucus, New Jersey: Carol Publishing Group, p. xii, ISBN 978-0-8065-1800-8, OCLC 33818143 
2. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b} New York Times, May 9, 1916 - http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0B13FA3A5B17738DDDA00894DD405B868DF1D3
3. Jump up ^ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, pp. 1238, Columbia University Press, 2000
4. Jump up ^ Philanthropists and Foundation Globalization, By Joseph C. Kiger (2008), pp 39
5. Jump up ^ Phelps Association Membership Directory, 2006
6. Jump up ^ Exeter Bulletin, Fall 2006, p. 27
7. Jump up ^ see 1
8. Jump up ^ The Half Opened Door,Marcia Graham Synnott, (1979), pp 9
9. Jump up ^ The Exeter Bulletin, Fall 2006, p.28
10. Jump up ^ Trust Deed, quoted on the Pilgrim Trust website, accessed 4 December 2006.
11. Jump up ^ Dowling, Robert M. Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill: a literary reference to his Life and Work pg. 614.Facts on File, New York ISBN 978-0816066759

External links[edit]

• The Pilgrim Trust website
• Biography in the Exeter Bulletin
• 'Edward S. Harkness, 1874-1940', Richard F. Niebling, Phillips Exeter Bulletin, Fall 1982 (PDF)
• The Commonwealth Fund website

Authority control WorldCat VIAF: 4197598 LCCN: n96056390

Persondata
Name	Harkness, Edward
Alternative names
Short description	American philanthropist
Date of birth	January 22, 1874
Place of birth	Cleveland, Ohio
Date of death	January 29, 1940
Place of death

   

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• St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire) alumni
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• Columbia Law School alumni
• Harkness family
• Phillips Exeter Academy
• American philanthropists

EOLIA -- Harkness (1907) -- Rinascimento -- Waterford, Connecticut, New England -- Long Island Sound. -- ROBERTO FUOCO --

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Eolia
Kite aerial photo over the Harkness mansion
Location	Great Neck Rd., Waterford, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°18′17″N 72°6′47″W / 41.30472°N 72.11306°W / 41.30472; -72.11306Coordinates: 41°18′17″N 72°6′47″W / 41.30472°N 72.11306°W / 41.30472; -72.11306
Area	220 acres (89 ha)
Built	1907
Architect	Lord and Hewlett; et al.
Architectural style	Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Second Renaissance Revival
NRHP Reference #	86003331
Added to NRHP	November 20, 1986

Eolia, the Harkness mansion (230 acres) is a Connecticut park and botanical garden located in Waterford, Connecticut, on the Long Island Sound.

The park comprises a 42-room mansion, designed by the New York architectural firm of Lord and Hewlett, with a surrounding area containing Italian garden and greenhouse.

The mansion is called Eolia, the estate of Edward Harkness, heir to a fortune initiated by his father Stephen V. Harkness's substantial investments in John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, who purchased the mansion in 1907.

Edward Harkness purchased the mansion in 1907.

From 1918 to 1929, extensive improvements were made by landscape designer Beatrix Jones Farrand.

Eolia was left to Connecticut in 1950 and became part of the park system in 1952.

As Eolia—Harkness Estate, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

The 0.89 km² district that was listed included 15 contributing buildings and two other contributing structures.

During the 1990s, an extensive restoration of the Harkness Estate and grounds was undertaken, supported by the State of Connecticut.

The lead restoration architect for this project was British architect Roger Clarke of Canto, Connecticut, with contributions by British architect Peter Clarke and consultant on historic gardens Rob Camp Fuoco.

At the start of the restoration, the "bones" of the gardens and rudimentary shrubs and perennials were looked at and installed.

During the following ten years, a dedicated group of volunteers, "The Friends of Eolia", or the Friends of Harkness, and competent park supervisors and staff have refined the gardens and brought them forward to their current beauty and historic relevance.

See also

• List of botanical gardens in the United States

References

1. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b} "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. 

External links[edit]

• Harkness Memorial State Park Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
• Friends of Harkness Memorial State Park
• Clouette, Bruce (April 7, 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Eolia - The Harkness Estate". National Park Service.  With accompanying photos from 1985 and 1986
• Historic photos of Eolia interiors from the Library of Congress

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