William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… his second wife Emma performed her Attitudes and danced the tarantella in front of assembled guests. In another set of performances, young boys splashed naked in the waters in front of his villa. People > Aristocracy People > Travel … on Sir William and Emma Hamilton, see Ersy Contogouris, Emma Hamilton and Late Eighteenth-Century European Art: Agency, Performance, and Representation (London: Routledge, 2018). 2 . ‘Un paradis habité par des diables.’ Maximilien Misson, … Naples, May 26, 1770, in The Letters of Mozart & His Family, p. 206. 7 . For a fuller discussion of Emma’s life and performances, see Contogouris, Emma Hamilton. 8 . Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun, Souvenirs 1755-1842, [1835-37], ed. Didier …
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