Lucia : A Venetian Life in the Age of Napleon (Paperback)

from ros.peters

I loved this history book. It told the story of the incredible life of Lucia, an ancestor of the author, and her life in and around Venice at the fall of the Venetian empire. It read like a novel and was full of amazing detail and a credit to the author's meticulous research. I would love to read...

from setnahkt

A rather pleasant, romance-novel sort of story – except it's true. While researching family papers, author Andrea di Robilant found a box of letters belonging to his great**4 grandmother, Lucia Mocenigo. There were probably thousands of men and women of Lucia's time that had more interesting life...

from MarthaJeanne

An interesting biography involving various cities that I know (particularly Venice and Vienna) and an interesting time period. Added interest came from the fact that the author is a descendant of Lucia.

from Kasthu

Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon begins where Andrea Di Robilant's A Venetian Affair left off. Lucia Mocenigo, one of the author's ancestors, was the eldest daughter of Andrea Memmo, and she married at seventeen into one of the best-known patrician families in Venice. When the Republ...

from Kasthu

Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon begins where Andrea Di Robilant's A Venetian Affair left off. Lucia Mocenigo, one of the author's ancestors, was the eldest daughter of Andrea Memmo, and she married at seventeen into one of the best-known patrician families in Venice. When the Republ...