Chiara Michiel

Here she renewed old friendships (with Conti, for instance) and made new ones, most importantly with the Venetian noblewoman Chiara Michiel . This friendship was linked with another: with James Stuart Mackenzie , a young...

This move enabled her to pick up the threads with old friends, including Chiara Michiel and Algarotti , and to find new intimates in the Jacobite exiles Sir James and Lady Frances Steuart . She...