The antique Roman imperial port of Tragara, and the Scoglio del Monacone where Masgaba, the architect of Emperor Augustus, was buried, are in the immediate vicinity of the house.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of the Futurism movement in 1909, and credited with spurring the rise of Italian modern architecture and city planning, described La Solitaria as one of the first futurist house of Italy for its verticality, spatial and visual innovations.
During this time, La Solitaria became the central meeting point of the English writers living or transiting in Capri, such as Norman Douglas, Francis Brett Young, William Butler Yeats, David Herbert Lawrence,[6] as well as the Scottish music critic and composer, Cecil Gray.
“The exceptionality of this house – has written professor Fabio Mangone[9] – notably increased not only because professor Mario Bertolotti built in the garden a kind of small sanctuary of Knosso to mask a cistern, but also because with an exceptional decision he realized in this word angle outside time, near a dolomitic wall, a family burial ground, which was authorized in 1938 and effectively realized only in 1947, for himself and his family members where he is buried together with his wife Bice Lupo, president of the Pro Cultura in Turin,[12] an extraordinary organizer of musical concerts with performers and conductors of international level - and the nephew Elena, actress, young pupil of the Accademia di Arte Drammatica.
The house has been inhabited by the Bertolotti’s family until 2022 when it has been sold to two young intellectuals, Benoit Duplat and Cristiano Leone, maintaining - according to the law - a right of way to reach the graves that the buyers are obliged to make practicable.