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Updated: May 14, 2025
Then the duenna changed her tactics; and strove to point out how very little a pretty face signified to any girl in the position of the Contessa di Marliani. To a poor girl, indeed, whose face was her fortune, it was another matter. But the niece of the Cardinal Legate! Bah! Did she imagine that she would lack suitors?
A little before the end of that year in which the Ravenna impresario performed his memorable journey to Milan with the results that have been recorded, Violante di Marliani reached her twenty-third birthday; a few months before that day the Marchese Ludovico had reached his twenty-second.
His elder brother, the grandfather of the Lady Violante, had inherited the family estates in the neighbourhood of Pesaro, and had died, leaving them to his only son, Violante's father, when the latter was a very young man. This Conte Alberto Marliani had married for love, as it is called.
It will not be for you to let it be supposed that you are ready and willing to offer your hand to the Contessa Violante Marliani, trusting to my refusal to accept it in the teeth of the wishes of my family. It is your duty to say openly and plainly that you cannot make the marriage proposed to you.
I think that shortly I shall be able to send you my Preludes and my Ballade. Go and see Leo; do not mention that I am ill, he would fear for his 1,000 francs. Give my kind remembrances to Johnnie and Pleyel. Madame Sand to Madame Marliani; Palma, December 14, 1838:
Further on in the letter, after inviting Madame Marliani and her husband to come to Nohant in May, she proceeds thus: It can hardly be said that he enjoys himself in Marseilles; but he resigns himself to recover patiently. The following letter of Chopin to Fontana, which Karasowski thinks was written at Valdemosa in the middle of February, ought to be dated Marseilles, April, 1839:
What makes things country-like also is that I live in the same square as the family Marliani, Chopin in the next pavilion, so that without leaving this large well-lighted and sanded Court d'Orleans, we run in the evening from one to another like good provincial neighbours.
So! the Marchese Ludovico, who ought to be paying his addresses to the Contessa Violante in the sight of all Ravenna the Contessa Violante Marliani was great niece of the Cardinal Legate, between whom and the Marchese Ludovico their respective families had projected an alliance was, instead of that, going off on a partie fine with the notorious Bianca Lalli! A tete-a-tete in the Pineta!
Madame Sand to Madame Marliani; Nohant, September 1, 1846: Here we have a little sun and Russian snow. I am glad of this weather for your sake, and imagine you walking about a great deal. Did Dib dance in last night's pantomime? May you and yours enjoy good health! Your most devoted, For your dear children. I am well; but I have not the courage to leave my fireside for a moment.
She confided her proposed escapade to her father and her old teacher Marliani, who assisted her to procure passports for herself and maid.
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