La Marchesa

ALASTOR PRESS 

Luisa Casati was known for her lavish parties, for wearing live snakes as jewelry, and for walking naked in the moonlight with her tame cheetahs on diamond leashes. Scandalous and headstrong, she fascinated the artists, writers, and fashion designers of the time, becoming their decadent muse and benefactor in the first decades of the 20th century. D’Annunzio and Fortuny, Van Dongen and Man Ray – they were all enchanted by her person.

In Scot D. Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino's bestselling biography, we meet Europe's most eccentric woman through the art she inspired. The descriptions of Luisa Casati's imprint on art and her incomparable costumes are spiced up with colorful anecdotes about everything from black masses to escaped boas at the Ritz - all in a fabulously entertaining and breakneck bizarre life sketch.

Prior to the Swedish translation, the text has been updated by the authors and the edition has been provided with an exclusive foreword by religious historian Per Faxneld.

Title: La Marchesa: Luisa Casatis liv och skepnader
Original title: Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati
Author: Scot D. Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino
Language: Swedish

Translator: Ellinor André
Designer: Beatrice Bohman and Martina Andersson
Format: Wirebound softcover
Number of pages: 404
Published: January 23, 2021

ISBN: 97891896336986

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Alastor Press is a Swedish independent publisher with a focus on literature that moves in the dark, esoteric and artistically distinctive. The publisher is known for its careful editions of both classic and contemporary works in areas such as decadence, symbolism, horror and philosophical fiction. With an eye for the obscure and cult, Alastor Press highlights writing that challenges, seduces and lingers.