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.
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.
Capri is an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrento Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy. A resort destination since the time of the Roman R
View from Massa Lubrense, Campania
The ruins of Villa Jovis, completed by Emperor Tiberius in AD 27
Certosa di San Giacomo, a Carthusian monastery founded in 1363
Villa Behring, where Maxim Gorky lived from 1909–1911.