Giuseppe FIESCHI. 1790-1836. Conspirator, organizer of the " - Lot 309

Giuseppe FIESCHI. 1790-1836. Conspirator, organizer of the "infernal machine" attack. L.A.S. to Nina Lassave. S.l., February 8, 1836. 2 pp. bifeuillet in-8, address on verso "pour Nina". enclosed a plate showing the street where the attack with the infernal machine took place & 4 lithographed plates showing Fieschi's portrait and those of the conspirators and Nina. Perhaps Fieschi's last letter, 11 days before his execution, to his young mistress Nina Lassave; he reproaches her for having abandoned him. "Nina my little friend, you scolded me in relation to your mother (...) but I leave you to your own devices. How cruel it is to have refused me up to my shirt. And learn, in this circumstance each one so pulls as the can, because I would say to you that it is called that itself to demande dettre in my load (...). I would not have gone to the aute to ask for an axle, and you would not be deprived of your friend now. He ends his letter by asking her to forgive his conduct and his relationship with his mother; "Au rest je te laisse croire à l'espérence? Ensi, I beg you to forgive me, your friend forever, for life. Saffroy Collection