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Countess Lucia Cicognara manuscript material

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Creator: Cicognara, Lucia Foscarini, contessa, 1768-1849
Call number: Pforz MS
Physical description: 1 item
Preferred Citation: Countess Lucia Cicognara manuscript material, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
Repository: Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
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Countess Lucia Cicognara, née Fantinati [other married name Foscarini], second wife of the Italian art collector and historian Count Leopoldo Cicognara. · To Lady Holland, political and literary hostess : 1 autograph letter signed "Lucia Foscarini Cicognara" : 5 November 1816 : (B'ANA 0576) : 1 page (single sheet) : from Venezia : in Italian; mentioning her daughter's illness and a kind letter from Lord Byron; begins, "Mentre io mi trovava in Padova invocando dai sussidi del clima e dai soccosrsi dell'arte medica lo ristablimento della sola mi figlia gravemente malata mi è giunta la gentilissima sua lettera trasmessami da Lord Byron . . . .".

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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319

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