Career
Ravagli took English lessons from Lawrence who, when Ravagli helped him fix a smoking chimney, told von Richthofen that "That is a man who would be useful to have at the Kiowa ranch". In 1935, von Richthofen sent Ravagli to Vence, where Lawrence had spent the last weeks of his life in the Ad Astra Sanatorium, to have Lawrence"s body exhumed and cremated and his ashes brought back to the ranch. Ravagli claimed that Lawrence once discovered him and Frieda having sexual
One of Lawrence"s biographers says that Lawrence responded by having an affair with Dorothy Brett.
Another of his biographers, John Worthen, believed that Frieda"s affair with Ravagli inspired Lawrence to write Lady Chatterley"s Lover, which Lawrence started to write in Italy in October 1926. Worthen based this on letters Frieda wrote to her mother in the 1920s.