{"id":13275,"date":"2021-04-19T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T07:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gardenrouteitalia.it\/evelina-pisani-van-millingen-2\/"},"modified":"2021-04-19T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T07:28:10","slug":"evelina-pisani-van-millingen-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenrouteitalia.it\/en\/evelina-pisani-van-millingen-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Evelina Pisani Van Millingen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born to an English father and a French mother, Countess Evelina was brought up with a cosmopolitan education. In 1853, she married Count Almor\u00f2 III Pisani, the last descendant of the family that commissioned the Villa in Stra. Widowed when still young, Evelina dwelled at the Vescovana Villa-estate near Padua, and worked to improve the lot of the nearby village. Henry James was fascinated by the countess. 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