Lucia - Andrea Di Robilant [173]
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*23Alvisetto’s two boys, Alvise and Giovanni, died very young. A later son, Andrea, married Olga Windish-Graetz, and had a daughter, Valentina. Alvisetto’s youngest daughters, Maria Amalia and Amelia, died without children. Valentina, the last of the Mocenigos, married Edmondo di Robilant, a Piedmontese. Their son, Andrea di Robilant, my grandfather, inherited the Mocenigo estate with the proviso that he take on the name. He never got around to doing it, and the Mocenigos became extinct.
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This Is a Borzoi Book Published by Alfred A. Knopf
Copyright © 2007 by Andrea di Robilant
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Originally published in Great Britain as Lucia in the Age of Napoleon by Faber and Faber Ltd., London, in 2007.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
di Robilant, Andrea, [date]
[Lucia in the age of Napoleon]
Lucia : a Venetian life in the age of Napoleon / by Andrea di Robilant.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Memmo Mocenigo, Lucia, 1770–1854. 2. Upper class women—Italy—Venice—Biography. 3. Venice (Italy)—Social life and customs. 4. Venice (Italy)—History—1787–1866. 5. Venice (Italy)—History—French occupation, 1797. 6. Europe—History—1789–1815. I. Title.
DG678.43.M46D5 2008
945'.311082092—dc22
[B] 2007042430
eISBN: 978-0-307-26857-0
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