We have a friend in Tuscany who recenly attended the Baronessa Beatrice Monti della Corte von Rezzori's writers' retreat, and he surreptitiously snapped a photo of her looking something up in our dictionary of one-letter words. We didn't know very much about the history of the Baronessa's selection and support of writing talent, so we did some digging, and there's one tidbit in a Telegraph article that we found especially charming: "'When people ask me how I know so many people,' she explains, 'I say it's because of Capri. I was the pretty girl of Capri, and I met all these writers, artists, homosexuals – and they would take me around, much like the pug.'"
