Cursum Perficio

Cursum Perficio is the name of Marilyn Monroe's last home. The Spanish Colonial hacienda symbolizes Marilyn's unfulfilled dreams and unfinished life. "Cursum Perficio," the book, is author Gary Vitacco-Robles' exploration of Marilyn's last home as a touchstone to her brief and extraordinary life.A definitive testament of Marilyn Monroe's modest nature, simple tastes and spirituality was her selection of a house in which to settle at age 35.

"Cursum Perficio" invites us inside Marilyn's private life through 120 illustrations and previously unpublished photos of her hacienda and its contents. The Latin inscription on the tiles adorning the front doorstep, Cursum Perficio (translating to "My journey ends"), prophesied the screen goddess' death in the home in 1962. See the interior, Marilyn's art and decorations purchased on a shopping spree in Mexico, and the furniture delivered