Marietta (Di Benvenuti) Mead (1842 - 1918)

Born 1842 in Italy

Wife of Larkin Goldsmith Mead Jr. — married 26 Feb 1886 in Florence, Italy

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Biography

"A Venetian by birth. Through the service of the consul she was found to be all that could be asked in family and culture. The story goes they could not speak a word of the other's language, so that the love-making had to be carried on through an interpreter." (E. Stanley Wires)

Feb 1866 - There Mead met Marietta di Benvenuti, and despite language dfficulties and Pope Pius IX's refusal to grant a dispensation for Marietta's wedding to a non-Catholic, they were married in February 1866. The Meads settled in Florence, but the sculptor's most ...

Howells had been appointed American Consul in Venice, and during a number of extended trips away from that city his brother-in-law Mead was prevailed upon to take his place in Venice.

Sources

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q23T-VGPZ : 7 June 2016), Maria Benvenuti, 1918; Burial, Florence, Provincia di Firenze, Toscana, Italy, Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori; citing record ID 160523765, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.