Albany, Louisa

COUNTESS OF, daughter of Prince Stolberg, of Gedern, in Germany, B. 1753, married in 1772, the adventurous Charles Edward Stuart, q. v. The counte being much younger, the match was ill a orted, and she retired to a convent. Subsequently she went to France, but on the death of her husband, in 1788, she settled in Florence. Here she secretly allied herself by marriage to Count Alfieri, the poet, taking the title of Counte of Albany, as the relict of the last of the Stuarts. Alfieri died in her house, and in 1810 she erected to his memory, in the church of Santa Croce, & monument executed by Canova. She was po e ed of a refined mind, loved literature and the arts, and while in Florence, her house was the resort of the most cultivated and distinguished persons. D. 1824.