Roberto Weiss (1906–1969), Italian-British scholar and historian
At Oxford he met the novelist Barbara Pym, who later used him as the basis for the character Count Ricardo Bianco in her first novel, Some Tame Gazelle, which she had begun writing while at Oxford.
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His personal library now forms an important part of the History of Art collection at the University of Warwick library.
Another character, Count Ricardo Bianco, is based on the real-life count and academic, Roberto Weiss.
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