Ippolita was born and raised in a 12th century farmhouse the hills above Florence, Italy. She is the daughter of an American artist mother and an Italian intellectual father and spent her childhood immersed in Renaissance art and architecture. “I went to elementary school in a one-room medieval schoolhouse, which now seems unreal to me,” she reminisces. She eventually earned her Baccalaureate in sculpture at the renowned Istituto D’Arte in Florence.
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