Person · Aristocrat
Contessa della Peruta
Background
A beautiful, refined aristocrat living in a near-castle above Santa Maria della Colombina.
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In Naples ’44
The subject of an ‘extraordinary’ marriage vetting: the elegance turns out to be staged with borrowed furniture in an otherwise empty house — a sharp variation on the genteel poverty Lewis keeps meeting.
Appears in 1 diary entry.
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April 14 1944A marriage vetting brings Lewis to the elegant, refined Contessa della Peruta, a rare and striking contrast to the poverty he usually encounters.
beautiful aristocrat found to be performing wealth with borrowed furniture and an empty house for her marriage vetting
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