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Wynne, Giustiniana (1737 - 1791)

Short name Wynne, Giustiniana
VIAF http://viaf.org/viaf/54135823
First name Giustiniana
Birth name Wynne
Married name
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
Flourishing -
Sex Female
Place of birth Venezia
Place of death Padova
Lived in Italy
Place of residence notes
Unknown artist, portrait of Giustiniana Wynne, 177X.
Mother
Father
Children
Religion / ideology Catholic
Education Educated at home
Aristocratic title -
Professional or ecclesiastical title -
Profession(s)
Memberships
Place(s) of Residence Italy
Circulations of Wynne, Giustiniana, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
Title Date Type

Receptions of Wynne, Giustiniana, the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

Title Author Date Type
*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 -
*positive mention in private correspondence on Giustiniana Wynne Melchiorre Cesarotti 1799 -
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
Unknown artist, portrait of Giustiniana Wynne, 177X. None is portrait 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)

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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.

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