Luxury Villa for Rent: Villa Passalacqua.
¿Os animaís a alquilarla?
This story is not complete without an understanding of Oscar Kiss Maerth. Kiss Maerth was born in Hungary (back then it was known as Yugoslavia) in 1914-1990) He travelled extensively in Asia and was involved in the shoe and silk trade.
Oscar Kiss Maerth becomes a self-styled monk and author on the origins of man. Later he married an English lady Elizabeth and purchased the Villa Passalacqua from Lady Nalder in the 60s. Unfortunately, the villa’s former glory had been stripped by Kiss Maerth who left it bare in hopes of using it for religious and philosophical conventions.
Kiss Maerth is the author of The Beginning Was the End (1971), a pseudo-scientific book written in a Chinese monastery that claimed modern man devolved from a species of brain-eating apes. Kiss Maerth’s philosophy on the origins of man became the inspiration for much of the music of the “Art Rock Band” DEVO.
An American family purchased the Villa Passalacqua from Elizabeth Kiss Maerth in 2000.
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James Kirby Jul 9, 2014
How wonderful to see Oscar again (and Elizabeth, and their daughters Berghita, Sonia and Gabriella)! I visited him at Palazzo Passalacqua (where this was filmed) on Lake Como a number of times in the late 1970's and early 1980's. He was the most charismatic man I've ever met, and a wonderful, playful teacher.
Patrick Crawford 1 month ago