Benedetta Barzini Has No Interest in Being Anybody’s Muse

On a chilly gray morning in 2017, hours before the Milan City Council was to give Benedetta Barzini a gold medal for civil honor, she was at home with her filmmaker son, Beniamino Barrese, thumbing her nose at the whole business. “If they’re honoring me for the model thing, beauty isn’t a merit. Not at all,” she said in a bristly exchange captured in his 2019 documentary, The Disappearance of My Mother. A purple hat and scarf swallowed her silver hair, and a pair of thin wire glasses sat on her nose. No, she didn’t want to change into something… Read Full Article