Cecilia Maria de Candia

Mario and his daughter, Mrs Godfrey Pearse

Cecilia Maria de Candia[1] (24 December 1853, Brighton, England – 26 May 1926, Bordighera, Italy), later Mrs Godfrey Pearse, was an Italian-British writer, amateur singer and society hostess. She was the daughter of two famous opera singers, Giulia Grisi and the Cavaliere don Giovanni Matteo de Candia,[2] who sang under the popular name of Mario the tenor, the youngest son of Stefano de Candia, Royal Governor General of Nice, Marquis of Candia and Aide-de-Camp to the King of Sardinia, Carlo Felice di Savoia.

  1. ^ Cecilia M. Pearse/The Correspondence of James McNeils Whistler, University of Glasgow, UK, whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk. Accessed 21 February 2024.
  2. ^ DE CANDIA, Giovanni Battista Matteo, detto Mario di Raoul Meloncelli - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 33 (1987)|http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/de-candia-giovanni-battista-matteo-detto-mario_(Dizionario-Biografico)/