Hester Lynch Piozzi
was trying unsuccessfully to bring about a marriage between HL
and the widowed marchese Ludovico Trotti
, who seemed to be in love with her.
Piozzi, Hester Lynch. The Piozzi Letters. Editors Bloom, Edward A. and Lillian D. Bloom, University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1989–2002, 6 vols.