Antonio (Nino) Cesarini was a Roman boy. In 1904 Jacques d'Adelswärd (1880 - 1923) dit Fersen met in Rome a fourteen-year-old construction worker, Nino, who immediately stole his heart. Fersen sounded out the boy's family and obtained their permission to take Nino with him as his secretary.

He became the lover of Fersen and posed for Wilhelm von Plüschow's pictures. The two of them were greeted with understandable suspicion on Capri. Nino, especially, was a problem: not because he was a boy but because he was from Rome and not from Capri.

This picture was taken by Guglielmo von Plüschow. It represents Nino Cesarini, boyfriend to baron Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, ling on a couch. In front of him, Nino's portrait painted by Paul Höcker, is hanging on the wall.

A Nino's portrait was painted by Umberto Brunelleschi, a young artist from Pistoia who was making an international furore and liked the company of "young poets". and another (the one shown here) by Paul Höcker. The sculptor Francesco Ierace from Polistena, whose atelier was now in Naples and who had in the meantime achieved national fame, cast Nino's image in bronze. The photo of Nino on the terrace of Villa Lysis dates from about this time.