Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-10
Death of Daughter OF Lucien Bon.
apRrte.

Death of a Daughter Of Lucien Bon
apRrte.
Perugia Qtaly) letter in New York Post.I
All eyes were directed one evening
last week to a box occupied by three
gentlemen, which, but few evenings
before, had been filed by group Of
ladies, and between the acts by crowd
of friends. In the morning our good
DR.. Trinci had paid us hurried profes-
sional call, and excited our sympathy
by his wearied appearance. He had
been passing the night at the bedside of
the owner OF the box in question. She
was none other than the Princess Bona
parte Valentino daughter Of Lucien
Bonaparte, woman of great personal
beauty, which she preserved to the last,
and Of very decided intellectual powers;
a born poet, liberal in politics, of very
strong affections, who had made a real
love match in her early youth, and who
years ago lost her husband under most
painful circumstances. he committed
suicide ct the family home in Canine.
For many years the widow lived in very
close retirement, coming again into the
world for the sake of her childEen only.
One of her daughters she married to
Count Faina, who has extensive estates
in the neighborhood of Perugia, and
whose great silk works are situated in
suppressed convent on one OF the slopes
of the mountain. The'Princess showed
how honest she was in her expression of
liberal sentiment, for Count Faina is
altogether a self-made man, anG not
very many years ago was a common
peasant, working for his daily bread. Her
other daughter married Count Bracci
Castracano, Of Fano. Her daughters
being settled in life, the Princess
returned to the literary pursuits she
had followed with such assiduity and
success during her husbands life, and
published two new volumes of poems
within few months. Her poetry rises
far beyond mediocrity, and one of her
works, which she called The Legend of
Margherita of Lairano," is full OF beauty,
1t is a poetical history of st. Margaret
of Cortona, and the author had drunken
in to the full and presented to her read
ers the physical beauties of Lake THRASH
meme and its mountains, the legends OF
the middle ages and the traditions which
haunt the shores and nights surrounding
home. Just as she seemed to have recov-
cred the use of her powers, and to enjoy
her new life, she was smitten by an
afliction similar to that which had
clouded her early life. Her eldest son,
who had gone on a hunting expedi.
ton to Canine villa, shot himself
under the same mysterious circum-
stances as those which surrounded the
death of his father. Soon after this
event followed the death Of her sister
Letitia, and of her cousin, the ex-
Emperor. Since these events she has
ceased her literary work and given her.
self up almost altogether to works OF
benevolence. This seemed to be the only
solace of the bereaved mother. Urged
by her friends to quit her solitude, she
had established herself in Perugia for a
few weeks, and on one occasion oceu-
MED her box at the theater. Her illness
was so short that her children did not
reach her in time to receive her last
words. 1t is we'll known that often this
true.bearted woman endeavored to inhu'
ence Louis Napoleon in favor of Italian
independence, and even wrested from
him promises which he-slas Tor him
self lflEnegIeeted to fulfil. Her death
excited a great ds9l of sympathy in the
community.