Surprises and unpublished: Byron Constance Fenimore Woolson at the Marciana National Library. The donation Clare Rathbone Benedict

The Marciana National Library , in collaboration with the Società Dante Alighieri, through the exhibition "Surprises and unpublished Byron Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Marciana National Library. The donation Clare Rathbone Benedict "is intended to offer the city and scholars one of the latest discoveries made in its stores, including first editions and objects of Lord Byron or his dedicated, along with fragments of the unpublished letters of American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson, a friend of Henry James. The exhibition, curated by Charles Bell, Gregory Dowling and Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, inspired by the legacy of Clare Rathbone Benedict the Marciana Library, presents a cross-section of the Venetian cultural life between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through books and articles, some of which are of significant value historical and cultural heritage.
A meeting of the curators of the exhibition will open to the public Saturday, March 29, 2014 , at 10 am , with input from n. 13 / a of the Piazzetta San Marco. The exhibition will be staged in his Monumental Rooms from 30 March to 1 May 2014 .
 
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) , born in New Hampshire, was a writer of short stories and novels, appreciated by his friend Henry James , inspired by situations of places lived , the great lakes of Michigan, the southern United States after the War of Secession , Europe , where he lived from 1879 drew from these non- ordinary , unconventional . A clear and persuasive writing , but under the surface of which boiled hidden passions and disturbing mysteries. Not surprisingly, some of these newborn brushed against the police , or the more traditional gothic genre . This is Christmas Eve set in Venice (where he committed suicide Constance ) .

Clare Rathbone Benedict (1870-1961) , American, daughter of the sister of Constance Fenimore Woolson . She was also a writer, and collector of books and objects of Byron. He published a work in three volumes , Five Generations, the story of his family , with a volume devoted entirely to Woolson . He made donations in memory of Woolson to different American and Swiss institutions , that offer the Marciana remained unknown until now .

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