Giuseppina Grassini

(1773-1850)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Grassini, Giuseppina, 1773-1850 LBT ID: GiGrass1850 VIAF ID: 10112974 LOC ID: n85353268	B/BAP: 1773-04-18 DIED: 1850-01-03
SOURCES: Wikipedia; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Italian contralto and singing teacher who had the distinction of being the lover of both Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington.
REFERENCES TO Giuseppina Grassini: Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte to Lady Morgan, 5 May 1817 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 4 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter V Chapter XIX Found 1: ¶ 17