Luisa, Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino, was an Italian heiress, socialite, and patroness of the arts in early 20th-century Europe.
Portrait of Marchesa Luisa Casati by Adolf de Meyer, 1912
Portrait of Marchesa Luisa Casati, by Adolph de Meyer, 1912
Marchesa Luisa Casati with a Greyhound, 1908, by Giovanni Boldini
Portrait by Augustus John, 1919
General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso, sometimes written d'Annunzio as he used to sign himself, was an Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and Royal Italian Army off
Luisa Casati
…artists and literary figures such as Robert de Montesquiou, Romain de Tirtoff, Jean Cocteau, and Cecil Beaton. She had a long-term affair with the author Gabriele d'Annunzio, who is said to have based on her the character of Isabella Inghirami in Forse che sì forse che no (Maybe yes, maybe no) (1910). The character of La…
D'Annunzio in 1870, aged 7
Birthplace of Gabriele D'Annunzio Museum in Pescara
Gabriele d’Annunzio's birth certificate