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100 1 _aDumas, Alexandre,
_d1802-1870
245 1 0 _aMemorie di Emma Lyonna, vol. 4/8
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-05-14
508 _aBarbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
520 _a"Memorie di Emma Lyonna, vol. 4/8" by Alexandre Dumas is a historical novel written in the mid-19th century. Told in the voice of Emma, Lady Hamilton, it traces her intimacy with Queen Maria Carolina of Naples and her entanglement in court intrigue as the French Revolution gathers force. The cast includes King Ferdinand, the minister Acton, and Prince Caramanico, as private passions collide with political maneuvering. Expect a blend of confession, seduction, and statecraft in the Neapolitan court. The opening of the narrative follows Emma’s summons to the royal apartments, where Queen Maria Carolina treats her with startling familiarity: they dress alike, share confidences, and the queen reveals a fervent, jealous attachment to Emma alongside memories of her true love, Prince Caramanico, and disdain for both husband and current favorite, Acton. Emma witnesses the queen’s secret cache of tokens and letters, then dazzles a select salon with performances—first a Sapphic hymn, then a haunting, mimed Ophelia—deepening the queen’s possessive affection. News of the Bastille’s fall intrudes, and the focus shifts to politics: Acton’s anti-French stance, freemasonic currents in Naples, and the growing revolutionary contagion. The queen coordinates with Vienna, plots dynastic marriages, and supports plans akin to the later Varennes flight, while Emma becomes her trusted confidante. After a Vienna–Rome journey, the queen returns buoyed by hopes of a coalition against France, and the court moves toward war preparations and tighter surveillance at home, even as King Ferdinand’s character is sketched as impulsive and unmartial. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cMilano: Daelli e C., 1864
653 _aHamilton, Emma, Lady, 1765-1815 -- Fiction
653 _aFrench fiction -- Translations into Italian
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76092
999 _c116817
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