Giustiniana Wynne
Giustiniana Wynne Countess Orsini Rosenberg ( * ca 1737 in Venice, † August 22, 1791 in Padua ) was an author and a representative of the salon culture of the late Venice.
Life
The daughter of the English nobleman Sir William Wynne and Anna Gazzini was encouraged at a young age in his father's library and multilingual scholars and literary circle around the British Consul Joseph Smith of this and Francesco Algarotti. After the death of her father, traveling with his family to London, the eloquent Venetian place in Paris in 1758 by beauty, education and temperament very quickly the interest of the large salons. The wealthy patron and general tax farmers Le Riche de la Pouplinière engaged to her. The then 16 -year-old Giustiana had in Venice, Andrea Memmo, son of one of the oldest patrician families in love and had a Äffaire with him. At the time of betrothal she was four months pregnant Memmo. Persecuted and threatened by the prospective heirs Pouplinières, she was taken from Casanova in a rural nunnery in security from which they emerged after the secret remained childbirth again and broke off the engagement.
Wynne married in 1761 the imperial ambassador to Venice, Count Philipp von Rosenberg Orsini, who retired in 1765 with her to his estates in Carinthia. Widowed they performed at Venice a cosmopolitan salon, valued by foreign intellectuals of the polyglot conversation due. 1780 she served the poet William Beckford of Fonthil a congenial Cicerone, 1782, the Senate ordered them to the Tsarevich Paul Petrovich, the future Paul II of Russia, and Grand Duchess Maria Feodorwona as honor attendant to. The report also published it in London. Since 1782, she published stories and reports from the milieu of the gondoliers as well as from their life circle of intellectuals and cultured patrician. Your French written texts betray a keen sense of values and traditions of different social layers.
1784 she retired to Padua, but often came to her house to Venice. Your friend, the failed reformer and opponent of the powerful Council of Ten, the senator Angelo Quirini, she dedicated a portrait in her description of his villa, with its art treasures and in Altiquiero at Padua. Great success was achieved in 1788 her book " Les Morlaques " description of a archaic and backward, dominated by clan Pride, war and superstition Slavic people on the troubled border with the Ottoman Bosnia. So she met the interest of romance to Sage and folk poetry. This was published the next year in Breslau and Leipzig in German work has inspired his involvement with Serbo-Croatian folk poetry and the essay "Serbian song " Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In May 1790 Giustiniana Wynne met Goethe and Duchess Anna Amalia of Saxe- Weimar in Venice.
Giustiniana Wynne Rosenberg - Orsini was buried in the church of San Benedetto in Padua, where a memorial plaque at the entrance portal remembers it.
Works
- You séjour à Venise of comtes du Nord en Janvier MDCCLXXXII: Lettre de Mme la comtesse douairière of Ursins, Rosenberg et à Mr. Richard Wynne, son frère à Londres, Londres ( 1782 )
- Pièces morales & sentimental de Madame JW ct -sse de Reg / écrites à une campagne, sur les Rivages de la Brenta, dans l' État Vénitien, Londres ( 1785 ), English translation:
- Moral and Sentimental Essays on miscellaneous subjects, written ( full 2 . ) In retirement, on the banks of the Brenta, in the Venetian state, London, ( 1785 )
- A Memmo André Chevalier de l' Etoile D' Or et procurateur de Saint Marc, à l' occasion du mariage de sa fille avec Louis Ainée Mocenigo Venezia 30 aprile 1787 Stamperia Giuseppe Rosa. Venezia ( 1787)
- Alticchiero, à M. Huber de Genève, par Madame JCDR, Padoue (1787 )
- Les Morlacques, par JWCDU & R., Venezia and Modena ( 1788).