Pancrazio Buciunì was an Italian model, lover and heir of Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, a German photographer who settled in Sicily in the late nineteenth century.
When Wilhelm von Gloeden arrived in the hilltop city of Taormina overlooking the Ionian Sea, he engaged the services of a local boy, Pancrazio Buciunì, named after Pancras of Taormina. The fourteen year old was already extremely handsome, with dark skin and large eyes. Von Gloeden nicknamed him "Il Moro" (The Moor) because of his Arabic heritage. Il Moro first became one of von Gloeden's models, then assistant, pupil and eventually lover.
The couple were in love. The young Buciunì looked after von Gloeden when he was sick, administering medications, getting special food from townspeople, preparing the salt water baths that doctors prescribed. He also arranged for local youths to participate in the midnight parties von Gloeden threw for his guests.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancrazio_Buciunì
See also: http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biob6/buciuni01.html
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Early life of von Gleoden
Wilhelm von Gloeden was self-invented. He claimed to be the son of an officer and baron from Mecklenburg and gave a "Schloss Volkshagen near Wismar" as his place of birth. However, there was no such castle there. He was indeed born into a Mecklenburg branch of the noble family von Gloeden, but his title of Baron was false because the von Gloeden line that held the barony is well-documented.
Wilhelm von Gloeden's father was Hermann von Gloeden (1820-1862), was a forest ranger in in 1851 in Volkshagen (today Völkshagen, near Marlow east of Rostock, Germany), when he married Wilhelm von Gloeden's mother, Charlotte née Maassen. ~ Find A Grave contributor: Steven Spiers
When Wilhelm von Gloeden arrived in the hilltop city of Taormina overlooking the Ionian Sea, he engaged the services of a local boy, Pancrazio Buciunì, named after Pancras of Taormina. The fourteen year old was already extremely handsome, with dark skin and large eyes. Von Gloeden nicknamed him "Il Moro" (The Moor) because of his Arabic heritage. Il Moro first became one of von Gloeden's models, then assistant, pupil and eventually lover.
The couple were in love. The young Buciunì looked after von Gloeden when he was sick, administering medications, getting special food from townspeople, preparing the salt water baths that doctors prescribed. He also arranged for local youths to participate in the midnight parties von Gloeden threw for his guests.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancrazio_Buciunì
See also: http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biob6/buciuni01.html
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Early life of von Gleoden
Wilhelm von Gloeden was self-invented. He claimed to be the son of an officer and baron from Mecklenburg and gave a "Schloss Volkshagen near Wismar" as his place of birth. However, there was no such castle there. He was indeed born into a Mecklenburg branch of the noble family von Gloeden, but his title of Baron was false because the von Gloeden line that held the barony is well-documented.
Wilhelm von Gloeden's father was Hermann von Gloeden (1820-1862), was a forest ranger in in 1851 in Volkshagen (today Völkshagen, near Marlow east of Rostock, Germany), when he married Wilhelm von Gloeden's mother, Charlotte née Maassen. ~ Find A Grave contributor: Steven Spiers
Pancrazio Buciunì was an Italian model, lover and heir of Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, a German photographer who settled in Sicily in the late nineteenth century.
When Wilhelm von Gloeden arrived in the hilltop city of Taormina overlooking the Ionian Sea, he engaged the services of a local boy, Pancrazio Buciunì, named after Pancras of Taormina. The fourteen year old was already extremely handsome, with dark skin and large eyes. Von Gloeden nicknamed him "Il Moro" (The Moor) because of his Arabic heritage. Il Moro first became one of von Gloeden's models, then assistant, pupil and eventually lover.
The couple were in love. The young Buciunì looked after von Gloeden when he was sick, administering medications, getting special food from townspeople, preparing the salt water baths that doctors prescribed. He also arranged for local youths to participate in the midnight parties von Gloeden threw for his guests.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancrazio_Buciunì
See also: http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biob6/buciuni01.html
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Early life of von Gleoden
Wilhelm von Gloeden was self-invented. He claimed to be the son of an officer and baron from Mecklenburg and gave a "Schloss Volkshagen near Wismar" as his place of birth. However, there was no such castle there. He was indeed born into a Mecklenburg branch of the noble family von Gloeden, but his title of Baron was false because the von Gloeden line that held the barony is well-documented.
Wilhelm von Gloeden's father was Hermann von Gloeden (1820-1862), was a forest ranger in in 1851 in Volkshagen (today Völkshagen, near Marlow east of Rostock, Germany), when he married Wilhelm von Gloeden's mother, Charlotte née Maassen. ~ Find A Grave contributor: Steven Spiers
When Wilhelm von Gloeden arrived in the hilltop city of Taormina overlooking the Ionian Sea, he engaged the services of a local boy, Pancrazio Buciunì, named after Pancras of Taormina. The fourteen year old was already extremely handsome, with dark skin and large eyes. Von Gloeden nicknamed him "Il Moro" (The Moor) because of his Arabic heritage. Il Moro first became one of von Gloeden's models, then assistant, pupil and eventually lover.
The couple were in love. The young Buciunì looked after von Gloeden when he was sick, administering medications, getting special food from townspeople, preparing the salt water baths that doctors prescribed. He also arranged for local youths to participate in the midnight parties von Gloeden threw for his guests.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancrazio_Buciunì
See also: http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/biob6/buciuni01.html
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Early life of von Gleoden
Wilhelm von Gloeden was self-invented. He claimed to be the son of an officer and baron from Mecklenburg and gave a "Schloss Volkshagen near Wismar" as his place of birth. However, there was no such castle there. He was indeed born into a Mecklenburg branch of the noble family von Gloeden, but his title of Baron was false because the von Gloeden line that held the barony is well-documented.
Wilhelm von Gloeden's father was Hermann von Gloeden (1820-1862), was a forest ranger in in 1851 in Volkshagen (today Völkshagen, near Marlow east of Rostock, Germany), when he married Wilhelm von Gloeden's mother, Charlotte née Maassen. ~ Find A Grave contributor: Steven Spiers
