Pasquale Villari

LV , an Englishwoman of the middle class, was baptised on 25 August 1836 in Islington. She married her first husband and had her children baptised in an Anglican church (Holy Trinity Church...

At about forty years old, after seven years a widow, Linda Mazini (later LV ) married her second husband, the Italian historian and politician Pasquale Villari .

LV and her husband were both friends of Vernon Lee , accepting her hospitality and moving in the same circles. Lee corresponded with LV from the late 1870s to the early 1880s and discussed...

Linda Villari 's writing career spans the period from the early 1870s to the early 1900s. (She began it after the death of her first husband, Vincenzo Mazini , in 1869.) She wrote novels, short...

Before she had yet published any translations from her husband, Pasquale Villari , LV rendered into English a novel by Maurice Jokai : Life in a Cave, written originally in Hungarian.

LV issued the first of her many translations into English of books by her learned and prolific husband, Pasquale Villari : The Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola. The publisher for all of these...

LV 's English translation appeared of her husband 's two-volume work The Two First Centuries of Florentine History: the Republic and Parties in the Time of Dante.

LV 's English translation The Barbarian Invasions of Italy, from the original by her husband, Pasquale Villari , appeared in print in two volumes, to open a series on Italian history. It was the...