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Graziella, A Story of Italian Love (Classic Reprint)
Graziella A Story of Italian Love - Classic Reprint Author:Alphonse De Lamartine TRANSLATOR'S NOTE. — THE story of Graziella is a leaf torn from the personal memoires of the famous French historian, poet and orator who wrote it,- brightened by his smiles and moistened with his tears. Had it not been for Graziella, " Les Confidences " of Lamartine might never have been published. Many years after this Italian, romance of his y... more »outh - as late as 1843-Lamartine went into retreat on the island of Ischia to write his " History of the Girondists." He was in sight of the isle of Procida where Graziella had lived and he had loved, and his hours of recreation were passed under the shade of a lemon tree, writing out the recollections of this charming episode. It was while he was thus engaged one day, that his friend, Eugene Pelletan, surprised him with a
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