Geremia Gioffredi, former administrator of Villa I Tatti died June 19 of broncial pneumonia. He was 89.

Villa I Tatti, based in Florence, Italy, is Harvard's center for Italian Renaissance studies.

Born May l8, l908, Gioffredi served for 30 years as Center Director Bernard Berenson's estate manager and administrator. No one was more deeply involved in the day-to-day life of the villa than he, no one did more to help create the atmosphere that characterizes I Tatti. During the difficult years of World War II, he more than anyone protected and sustained I Tatti, its inhabitants, its treasures, and its surrounding property.

After Berenson's death, Gioffredi continued for many years to assist and advise a succession of the Harvard Center's directors, and even in retirement he maintained a solicitous, supervisory eye over what went on there, giving Director Walter Kaiser and his predecessors the inestimable benefit of his sage counsel.