Title: Chasing the rose
Description: "The author chronicles his search for a fabled antique rose--a tale that takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, and looks into the future of this much beloved flower"--
Subjects: Roses, Homes and haunts, Identification, Gardens, Old roses, GARDENING / Flowers / Roses, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HISTORY / Europe / Italy
Places: Italy, Venice Region
People: Lucia Memmo Mocenigo (1770-1854), Andrea Di Robilant (1957-), Josephine Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French (1763-1814)