240) Giulia Beccaria

Giulia Beccaria (1762 - 1841). Italian noblewoman, daughter of Cesare Beccaria and mother of the novelist and poet Alessandro Manzoni.

"She is beautiful and restless, with red hair and grey-green eyes. She is lively, intelligent and enthisiastic."
http://www.enciclopediadelledonne.it/biografie/giulia-beccaria/

(Portrait of Giulia Beccaria and her

son Alessandro Manzoni, 1790 by Andrea Appiani)

(Portrait of Giulia Manzoni Beccaria,

1802 by Maria Cosway)