Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon [Italy 1787-1866]
Di Robilant, Andrea

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008


No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. 9.5 inches tall; 350 pages with Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with color plates

Fine / Fine. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.

With the brave and articulate Lucia at the center of his re-creation of this remarkable historical period, 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.

Drawing on the letters of his great-great-great-great-grandmother Lucia Mocenigo, a Venetian aristocrat, di Robilant paints a vivacious picture of the Napoleonic age. The fifteen-year-old Lucia's correspondence with her new fiancé, the nobleman Alvise Mocenigo

Item #18106 Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon [Italy 1787-1866]. Andrea Di Robilant
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