John Horne Burns (Milan, 1950): A Portrait by Indro Montanelli

Indro Montanelli's portrait of John Home Burns is a noteworthy commentary on Italo-American literary and sociocultural relations. At the same time, the portrait holds interest for biographers and critics of Burns, author of the best-selling World War II "novel" The Gallery (1947), because it dramatizes his behavior and philosophies during a special, brief encounter in Milan.