Byron's Venetian landlady
Andrea di Robilant specialises in the sexual secrets of his ancestors. His first book, A Venetian Affair, based on a remarkable cache of letters mostly in code told the story of the clandestine love between his 18thcentury forebear, Andrea Memmo, and an alluring young creature called Giustiniana Wynne. The discovery of still more family correspondence has resulted in Lucia in the Age of Napoleon, which introduces us to Memmo's eldest daughter, and di Robilant's greatgreatgreatgreat grandmother vanessa bruno, Lucia Mocenigo.
Lucia was not your average early 19thcentury granny, muttering over the gruel and staying fixed like a compass in the place of her birth. When she married, aged 17, she went from a grand Venetian family whose fortune, like that of Venice itself, was on the decline, into a grander Venetian family whose wealth and power were ascending. It was a magnificent match lululemon; the Mocenigos were a celebrated couple, and Lucia was initially devoted to her husband pandora jewelry, who was 10 years her senior with a divorce already behind him.
'My most beloved Alvise,' she writes in a typical note tiffany and co, 'it seemed to me you were not in your usual sweet humour when you woke up. I am a little worried as I am unable to trace the cause of this change.' The cause of this change, which saw Alvise turn from an enthusiastic groom to an indifferent spouse, was his attraction to other women, including the mistress of his fatherinlaw, and one has to be impressed by the number of affairs he managed to work his way through without the knowledge of Lucia, who discovered the extent of his infidelity only after his death.
Following three miscarriages, the death of her only surviving child chan luu, and the fall of her beloved Venetian Republic, Lucia returned to the Memmo estates in Padua, where she fell for a Austrian officer of Irish extraction toms shoes, Baron Maximillian Plunkett, by whom she became pregnant.
Plunkett died in battle before his son, Massimiliano, was born, and the boy was placed in a family until, at four years old, his existence was discovered by Alvise, who renamed him Alvisetto and adopted him as his heir. This seemingly warm and forgiving act, by which Lucia was able to raise her own child and relax in the knowledge that his future was secure (it is from Alivisetto that Di Robilant is descended), was interpreted by Paolina tiffany uk, her sister, as the kind of emotionally cold and selfseeking behaviour she expected from a man like Alvise.
Lucia's life was dictated by the movements of Napoleon, to whom Alvise was initially in thrall tiffany and co. She variously lived in Baden, Vienna, Paris; she became ladyinwaiting to Princess Augusta, the daughterinlaw of the Empress Josephine, and then friends with Josephine herself, who she would visit in her retreat, Malmaison, after her divorce from the Emperor. Lucia's principal interests were the development of her son, on whom she doted, and the happiness of her sister, to whom she wrote almost daily.
Following Bonaparte's defeat, she returned to the family mansion in Venice, Palazzo Mocenigo, with its empty marble rooms and frescoed apartments. Widowed and in need of an income, she took in a lodger who happened to be Lord Byron, who brought with him a wolf, a fox, two monkeys, a number of birds and 14 servants microsoft office 2010 product key. In the final act of her life, the vulnerable young bride became the redoubtable landlady.
Immune to both her tenant's poetry and pose, Lucia instead fussed about the inventory vanessa bruno pas cher. 'Mother Mocenigo will probably try a bill of breakables', complained Byron, who was equally indifferent to the charms of Lucia. 'She may be content, or she may be damned; it is no great matter which.'
In old age Lucia became, like Julianna Bordereau in Henry James's The Aspern Papers, something of a relic. She was visited by Chateaubriand and by Effie ルイビトン, Ruskin's wife, who left descriptions of the impossibly regal figure whose exquisite manners quite 'took away from your first impressions caused by the absurdity of her dress', and her desiccated palace, whose walls were covered in fulllength pictures of the family statesmen.
Lucia in the Age of Napoleon is less a biography than a ghost story; unsettling microsoft office 2007 product key, exciting, almost unbelievable in its immediacy ergo baby carrier. Lucia will become as vital a part of Venetian history as Casanova, or Byron himself, or any of the Mocenigo doges who lie entombed in San Giovani e Paulo, 'each face finer more beautiful than the other' beats by dre, as Effie Ruskin put it windows 7 product key, 'even in old age'.Related：

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