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Lucida Mansi sold her soul to the devil………find out more……..

http://www.tuscany-villas.it/to-tuscany/2013/tourist-attractions/legend-lucida-mansi-lucca

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Painting and Poem  Silhouette In Bagni Di Lucca   Copyright  To Anne Frandi-Coory –

All rights reserved 4 November 2013…..

Painting by afcoory –  acrylic on canvas 100cm x 75cm

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Oh Lucca

why do you hide your beauty?

no…

you’re not a Milan

a Rome

or even a Florence

but greens from every palette

adorn your hills and valleys

freshness pervades your air

water pure as crystal

What’s that I hear?

Lucida Mansi

her palazzo there

in Lucca town

filled with silken gold

treasured paintings

four poster draped exquisitely

how can that compare?

Lucida of my maternal line

was it you enticed me here?

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Read the rest of my poem *Silhouette In Bagni Di Lucca * 

in Dragons, Deserts, and Dreams

Available now at AMAZON in Kindle e book and paperback 

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Dedicated to my maternal great grandmother Raffaela Marisi Mansi Grego (Greco) -the Mansi name probably originated in Saxony. Mansi ancestors moved to Italy as wealthy silk traders when Italy was ruled by Germany.

Read more about the origins of the Mansi family name: My Fascination With Italian Surnames