Lucia : a Venetian life in the age of Napoleon
2007, 1st American Edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 350 pages; Description: xxi, 350 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm. Subject: Memmo Mocenigo, Lucia, -- 1770-1854. Upper class women -- Italy -- Venice -- Biography. Venice (Italy) -- Social life and customs. Summary: The world of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Venice is revealed through the letters of Lucia Mocenigo to her sister as she details the milieu of the Venetian aristocracy, the fall of Venice to Napoleon, and her relationship with the Empress Josephine. Item #183254
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