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Elisa Beth Luise Vigee Lebrun

Famous French painter, arrived in Ischia at the end of 1790, with friends. Ischia, fascinated her, since the arrival and she wrote "one of the most beautiful impressions on arrival I felt it was the sight of a large number of houses perched on the mountain and clearly illuminated, which is offered to the eye as a second heaven". His excursion on Epomeo was no less because the sight was delighted and said that surely the poem was to be born there.