Marianna Marquesa Florenzi
Marianna Marchesa Florenzi (* 1802, † April 15, 1870 in Florence), Marianna also Bacinetti Florenzi Waddington, was an Italian nobleman, translator of philosophical writings, philosopher and friend of Ludwig I of Bavaria.
Youth and first marriage
The daughter of Count Giuseppe Bacinetti from Ravenna enjoyed in an institute in Faenza a universal education and was married as a 16- year-old with the 42 -year-old Ettore Florenzi, Marchese di Rasina since lived in Perugia. At the age of 17, she brought on 15 July 1820 daughter, Carlotta.
Ludwig I.
1821 she met Ludwig I, King of Bavaria know, with a decades-long relationship developed and the weeks visited many times and partly in Perugia. She wrote over a period of 47 years in 2014 letters to Ludwig I, who in turn wrote her letters in 2977; the correspondence is partially located in the Casa Silvestri, headquarters of the Superintendence Archivistica Umbria in Perugia. Ludwig I repeatedly sought their advice in affairs of state.
As much as he clung to her, also shows how many pictures he let make of it, as in 1824 the well-known portrait of Heinrich Maria von Hess (now in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich), 1827 (or rather 1825) a portrait of Rehbenitz, 1829 a bust of Thorvaldsen ( Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen today ) and 1828 a portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler (now in the Gallery of Beauties Nymphenburg Palace in Munich).
Marianna's son Ludovico, whom she gave birth on October 31, 1821 was officially the son of her husband Ettore, but could his son Ludwig I, who ordered him to train in Bavaria and across from him behaved life caring. Probably Ludwig sake learned Marianna Florenzi German and grappled with German literature.
Second Marriage
After the death of Ettore Florenzis 1832 Marianna married in 1836, the English gentleman Evelyn Waddington ( 1806-1883 ).
The philosopher
Literary formed and interested reader of philosophical works, she put the female ideal of an educated woman of that time and a witty hostess at cultural gatherings; they became a respected pioneer German philosophy in Italy, by translating important works and published in Italian, such as fonts Schelling, Leibniz 's Monadology. They also promoted the spread of Kant, Spinoza in Italy. Politically, it supported Italy's national movement. She has published, inter alia, 1850 " Alcune riflessioni sopra il socialismo e il comunismo " and ended up with it as the other of their works on the Church's Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
The Florenzi family is now extinct, the Villa La Bella Colom is the seat of a study center for water management at the Università per Stranieri di Perugia, and the Castello Ascagnano is privately owned.