In 1797, Lucia, the beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter of a Venetian statesman, was married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families of the once glorious maritime Republic.
This is Lucia\'s story, from dazzling young hostess in Habsburg Vienna, lady-in-waiting at the court of Prince Eugene de Beauharnais in Milan, single mother in Paris during the fall of Napoleon\'s Empire or as Byron\'s hard-fisted landlady during the poet\'s stay in Venice..
But Lucia\'s life was suddenly transformed when the thousand-year-old Serenissima collapsed under the blows of young Bonaparte in 1797.
They were a golden couple in Venice\'s twilight years.
In 1797, Lucia, the beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter of a Venetian statesman, was married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families of the once glorious maritime Republic
