Note 638 — BOOK XII[500]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Louise Marie Caroline of Stolberg-Gedern, de jure Louise Queen of England (1753-1824), known as the Countess of Albany after Charles's death, when she secretly married the poet Alfieri, in whom she had long inspired a lively passion. Alfieri died in 1803, and Louise is said to have contracted a second liaison and a third marriage with François Xavier Pascal Fabre, the French historical painter.—T.