One of Bishop’s
favourite places in Brazil was the baroque city of Ouro Preto (now a UNESCO
World Heritage Site). She visited there a number of times and stayed at an inn that
belonged to her friend Lilli Correia de Araújo. “Under the Window: Ouro Preto”
is set at that place. Eventually, Bishop bought and restored an
eighteenth-century house that she named “Casa Mariana,” in honour of her friend
Marianne Moore and because it was on the road to the town of Mariana. It was
not the first house Bishop had owned (that was in Key West, Florida), nor would
it be her last (a condo at Lewis Wharf, Boston); but it was one which she
loved, even though she spent little time there.
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