Lucia in the Age of Napoleon - Brossura

Robilant, Andrea Di

Brossura

ISBN 10: 057123318X ISBN 13: 9780571233182

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2007

Riassunto

In 1797, Lucia, the beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter of a Venetian statesman, was married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families of the once glorious maritime Republic. They were a golden couple in Venice's twilight years. But Lucia's life was suddenly transformed when the thousand-year-old Serenissima collapsed under the blows of young Bonaparte in 1797. Whether as a dazzling young hostess in Habsburg Vienna, lady-in-waiting at the court of Prince Eugene de Beauharnais in Milan, single mother in Paris during the fall of Napoleon's Empire or as Byron's hard-fisted landlady during the poet's stay in Venice, Lucia lived to be a remarkable witness to an age of great turmoil. Two hundred years later, Andrea di Robilant, Lucia's great-great-great-great grandson, has unearthed letters and diaries in archives across Europe to draw an intimate and vivid portrait of his ancestor, and of the exceptional times she lived in.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 057123318X
• ISBN 13: 9780571233182
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304