Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen
Baron Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen was a French novelist and poet. His life forms the basis of a fictionalised 1959 novel by Roger Peyrefitte entitled The Exile of Capri (L'exilé de Capri).
D'Adelswärd-Fersen in 1905
Nino Cesarini, lover of d'Adelswärd-Fersen, painted by Paul Hoecker (1904)
Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen and Nino Cesarini (and their Sri Lankan servant), Capri, 1905
Nino Cesarini, lying naked on a couch in Villa Lysis. His portrait by Paul Hoecker hangs at the wall in front of him.
Pierre Roger Peyrefitte was a French diplomat, writer of bestseller novels and non-fiction, and a defender of gay rights and pederasty.
Roger Peyrefitte