garden in the English style. For a time the house was known as Villa Sommariva.

Because Sommariva's eldest son, Emilio, had died fighting in Spain in 1811, Sommariva's fortune was left to his second son, Luigi. After Luigi's death in 1838, the fortune (by then much diminished) was divided between his wife, Emilia Sommariva (a French noblewoman née Seillère) and numerous relatives.

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In 1843, Princess Marianna, the wife of Prince Albert of

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