Cecilia Maria de Candia
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A seasoned British-Italian writer, Cecilia Maria became a well-known biographical researcher and writer after expending many years travelling around the world, first with her parents the famous opera singers Giulia Grisi and Giovanni Matteo Mario and then with her husband Lord Pearse.
Maria had a fascinating upbringing in the arts and letters educated in the old European style of the classic arts, while surrounded by the artistic elite of Europe the friends and colleagues of her parents. From birth she belonged to the Italian nobility from her father lineage the House of Candia, she was registered at birth as princess Cecilia Maria de Candia, Countess of Candia and Lady of the Italian Kingdom of Sardinia. At maturity she married the British Lord Pearse, with whom she shared homes in Italy and England. Maria passed away while conducting research and writing at a villa in Toscany.
References
One of her works can be viewed as a free edition at: http://www.archive.org/details/romanceofgreatsi00peariala
British Encyclopeadia, Encyclopedia Britanica, London UK