The world of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Venice is revealed through the life of Lucia Mocenigo and her letters to her sister as she details the milieu of the Venetian aristocracy, the fall of Venice to Napoleon, her relationship with the Empress Josephine, affair with an Austrian officer, and firsthand account of the 1814 defeat of Bonaparte in Paris. 50,000 first printing.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 EmpressJosephine.
