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Sights at Lake Como and Garibaldi's memory
Special correspondence from Cernobbia near Como describes in vivid travel notes Grace Greenwood’s reflections on Garibaldi and Mazzini’s memory in Lombardy, the peasant costume, villas of Taglioni and Pasta, and iconic figures like Pauline’s palace and Queen Caroline. The piece blends landscape, history, art, and salon gossip with portraits of performers and adventuresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garibaldi
Mazzini
Lombardy
Cernobbia, Lace
Como
Milan
San Fermo
Italy
Lexington
Lucia
Manzoni
Lake Como
Claude Melnotte
Pliny
Pauline
Plimana
Pliny the Younger
Taglioni
Pasta
Scala Theatre
Tayloni
Norma
London
Chateaubriand
Cernobbia
Caroline of
Brunswick
England
Wales
Europe
George IV
Villa d’Este
Caroline
Miricordo
Poritan
Portia
Cesar
Fam
Fannie Lear
Harriet Ely Blackford
Paris
St. Petersburg
Nicholas Constantinovich
Rome
Count Mirafior
New England
Ezra Styles Ely
Philadelphia
Ely
Trumbull
Lebanon
Conn
Dispatch
Faris
Adventuriera Americana
Russia