Villa Lysis

Exploring Villa Lysis, an Aesthete’s Retreat in Capri | Vogue

"On Capri, I trace the origins of this elegant retreat to the Parisian-born poet Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen, who inherited his father’s steel-mill fortune and title; arrested at twenty-three for "outrage against public morals" and "corruption of minors," and after a failed suicide attempt, he fled France, restyled himself Count Fersen, and—with help from Norman Douglas—sited it far from the madding crowd with spectacular gull’s-eye views on three sides of the Amalfi coast, the Gulf of Naples, Mount Tiberio, and the Basilicata mountains; nearby lie the splendid ruins of Villa Jovis." - Hamish Bowles