Originally better educated than her Italian contemporaries, the ex-Canoness of Mons, half-Flemish, half-German by family, French by training, and connected with England through her marriage with the Pretender, had the advantage of open doors upon several fields of culture.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
One hundred and twelve years ago, and seventeen years before the great revolution which yawns, an almost impassable gulf, between us and the men and women of the past, a woman, a girl of nineteen, and a Canoness of Ste.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
I went up to a Canoness who was very fond of Italian poetry, and had no trouble in engaging her in an interesting discussion.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt