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Lucia: a Venetian life in the age of Napoleon

By Andrea , Memmo Mocenigo , Lucia;Di Robilant

Book information

Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN
9780307268570, 9781400044139, 0307268578
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
3 MB (2755549 bytes)
Edition
1st American ed
Pages
xxi, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : il
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1770-1854;Upper class women -- Italy -- Venice1797;Europe -- History -- 1789-1815;BIOGRAPHY & AUBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical;HISTORY--EurLucia

Description

Rome -- Palazzo Mocenigo -- Vienna -- The fall of Venice -- Colonel Plunkett -- Viennese carousel -- The education of Alvisetto -- Lady-in-waiting -- A year in Paris -- Byron's landlady.;In 1787, the beautiful Lucia is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when Venice falls to Bonaparte. We witness Lucia's painful series of miscarriages and the pressure on her to produce an heir; her impassioned affair with an Austrian officer; the glamour and strain of her career as a hostess in Vienna; and her amazing firsthand account of the defeat of Napoleon in 1814. With his brave and articulate heroine, Andrea di Robilant has once again reached across the centuries, and deep into his own past, to bring history to rich and vivid life on the page. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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