Giustiniana Wynne (1737 - 1791)

Short name Giustiniana Wynne
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First name Giustiniana
Birth name Wynne
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Alternative name Madame la Comtesse des Ursins et Rosenberg , Contessa Giustiniana degli Orsini e Rosenberg , Countess of Rosenberg , Justine Rosenberg Orsini , Justine Wynne , Rosemberg
Date of birth 1737
Date of death 1791
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Sex Female
Place of birth Venezia
Place of death Padova
Lived in Italy
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Religion / ideology Catholic
Education Educated at home
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Place(s) of Residence Italy
Receptions of Giustiniana Wynne, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
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*sonnet about Wynne as author [unidentified author, multiple, separate records to be made] 1787 is dedicated to
*Dedication of poem to Wynne [author male, various] [CREATE SEPARATE RECORDS] 1790 is dedicated to
Necrologio in Gazzetta Urbana Veneta (see relev. notes) [author male, various] [CREATE SEPARATE RECORDS] 1791 is obituary of
*positive mention of Wynne as author [author male, various] [CREATE SEPARATE RECORDS] 1791 None
*positive mention in private correspondence on Giustiniana Wynne Melchiorre Cesarotti 1799 None
Notice sur le vie et les écrits de Justine Wynne, Comtesse des Ursins et de Rosenberg [author male, various] [CREATE SEPARATE RECORDS] 1858 is biography of
Cf. - Nancy Isenberg, Seduzioni epistolari nell'età dei Lumi. L'equivoco e provocante carteggio amoroso di Giustiniana Wynne, scrittrice anglo-veneziana (1737-1791), in Quaderno del Dipartimento di Letterature Comparate. Università degli Studi Roma Tre, 2, 2006, pp.47-70. - Nancy Isenberg, Without swapping her skirt for breeches: The Hypochondria of Giustiniana Wynne, Anglo-Venetian Woman of Letters in The English Malady: Enabling and Disabling Fictions a cura di Glen Colburn. Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Press 2008, pag.154-176. - Nancy Isenberg (editor), Giustiniana Wynne, Caro Memmo, mon cher frére, Treviso, Elzeviro editore, 2010. ISBN 88-87528-24-1 Bruno Brunelli, Un'amica del Casanova, Firenze, Sandron, 1923 - Nancy Isenberg, Mon cher frère: Eros mascherato nell’epistolario di Giustiniana Wynne a Andrea Memmo (1758-1760), in Trame parentali/trame letterarie, a cura di M. Del Sapio, Napoli, Liguori, 2000, pp. 251-265. - Andrea di Robilant, A Venetian Affair, N.Y,, Knopf, 2003 - Rudolf Maixner. “Traductions et imitations du Roman Les Morlaques”. Revue des études slaves 1955 (32) : 64-79. - Cvijeta Pavlovič. “Morlacchism according to the Novel Les Morlaques by Justine Wynne the countess Rosenberg-Orsini (Venice, 1788)”, in Norodna Umjetnost (Croatian Journal of Ethnology and Folklore Research) 1998 (31, 1): 255-276. - Larry Wolff. “The Morlacchi and the Discovery of the Slavs: From National Classificationn to Sentimental Imagination”. In Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2001: 173-227. - Rebecca Williamson. “Giustiniana’s Garden: An Eighteenth Century Woman’s Construction”. In Gendered Landscapes, An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Past Place and Space a cura di B. Szczgiel, J. Carubia e L. Dowler. University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 2000: 48-56.
NOT MENTIONED IN: - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992 NOT INCLUDED IN: - in Univ. of Chicago database on Italian Women Writers - Brown University Women Writers database - 'Deo and Bettina' (from 'Moral and Sentimental Essays') published in European Magazine; and translated in Italian - 'The Talisman of Truth, an Oriental Tale' (from 'Moral and Sentimental Essays'),repulished numerous times, in England, Ireland, Italy, Austria, USA, almost always anonymously - works translated into Italian, German Place of birth : Venice, Italy 21-01-1737 (illegitimate, date often mistakenly reported as 1732). Died in Padua, Italy 22-08-1791. Religion/ideology : Catholic, father Anglican, mother Catholic Health: concealed pregnancy (out of wedlock) and birth (in convent), child abandoned at birth (according to Casanova, Histoire) Profession(s) and activities: - fiction writer (recognized as inventor of anthropological novel) - other (essayist, writer of love letters subsequently compiled for publication) -- Also lived in Klagenfurt (Austria). - liaison with man (Andrea Memmo 1750s -1760) - liaison with man (Casanova, according to Casanova's Histoire, 1759) - married to the count Philip Joseph of Rosenberg (1761) - widowed (1765) - Upper class by birth, nobility by marriage. Well educated at home Received a widow's pension. Mentions investing her own money (in her letters to Memmo). Frequent debts are recorded in letters and legal documents from various moments in her adult life. forfurtherdiscussion; alos lived in: austria , france, london, padova, venice