Gatteschi, Ferdinando Luigi |
| POLITICAL ACTIVIST (ITALY) |
| BORN c1813 |
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Son of an Italian nobleman. He fought together with the carbonari
and found some kind of a patron in Mary Shelley, who gave him
money. She was probably infatuated with him, because when she
inherited money after the death of her stepfather Sir Timothy
Shelley he tried to blackmail her with 'love letters' that she
had sent him. The writer A.A. Know - a friend of the Shelleys
- managed to grab the letters away from him, aided by the Paris
police.
Related persons • has a connection with Shelley, Mary Sources • Spark, Muriel, Mary Shelley, Constable, London, 1988 • Sunstein, Emily W., Mary Shelley, Romance and Reality, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1989 |