FRIENDS - SNAPSHOTS

SNAPSHOTS OF SOME FRIENDS & ACQUAINTANCES 

Giorgio Quintini led a rich social life. He had many friends and because of his chosen sphere of work, also had many more acquaintances. Here are some photographs. When any more snapshots turn up or are kindly sent by email (to giorgioqp@libero.it) they can be hosted here.

Giorgio with the art critic and curator Pier-Luigi Tazzi (Rome 1962)

Giorgio Quintini wearing the large silver Paleologo ring he used for years, with Noemi Servadio at at the presentation of his novel, I malnati, in Florence in 1960

Giorgio, at a reception with Jean-Jacques Feurer and Juliana Sarouphim. The lady was an artist from the Lebanon and a contemporary of Giorgio. The young man may be a Swiss national born in 1939 and died in California in 2003, but nothing else is known about him.

Giorgio Quintini in Florence (1960) with a Contessa Battaglini.

Giorgio on the Spanish Steps with Supith Hyranyather (1962)

Giorgio Quintini at a party held by James Bayley & Timmy Tengroth below. Giorgio (centre left) is in conversation with the the seated young man who accompanied Gian Tomaso Liverani (1919-2000) the art gallery owner (far left).

The hosts of the party above, James Bayley (1924-1995) an Australian writer working in Rome, and Sten ("Timmy") Tengroth (1935-1991). They lived on Via Claudia, by the Colosseum but this was to be the last time they invited Giorgio for he blotted his copy book on this occasion.

James Dorset, or James Dorset-East, or Stephen East, turned up at Giorgio Quintini's in Rome. As a stringer for various magazines he was on the lookout for international gossip and so he latched on to Giorgio to whom he had been introduced by a mutual friend in Paris. Alas this is the only image, sent by Giorgio himself, which is a photocopy from an article in The Tatler. Dorset was savaged by a certain "Lady Colin Campbell" in her scandalous biography of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. In actual fact he was good if unintentionally comic company, a collector of Royalty, reigning and not (e.g. ex-Queen Geraldine of Albania was a frequent house guest of his in London). He died young.