Evelina van Millingen Pisani was a modern woman in the age of Queen
Victoria. She was born in Constantinople in 1831 to an eccentric
French mother and an English father, who was a doctor accused of
having murdered Lord Byron. Educated in Papal Rome until the age of
eighteen, she was whisked back to Constantinople by her father, now
working for the sultan. While visiting Venice, this striking beauty
of twenty-two met and married the wealthy Count Pisani. Evelina
became an exotic star in the firmament of wealthy American and
English socialites, artists, and writers, for whom the artistic
decadence of Venice was an antidote to the factories, materialism,
and homophobic laws they saw at home. In her circle of friends were
Isabella Stewart Gardner and an admiring Henry James. When her
husband died after twenty-seven years of marriage, the grieving
countess unexpectedly found herself saddled with his mortgage
debts. Inheriting the vast but rundown Pisani estate in the misty
flatlands near Padua, Evelina took full charge. Becoming a hands-on
farmer, she restored swampland, built an English garden, and
created a model farm for hundreds of tenant farmers. Through it
all, she remained a pillar in the admiring Venetian set.
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