Famous French painter, arrived in Ischia at the end of 1790, with friends. Ischia, fascinated her, since the arrival and she wrote "one of the most beautiful impressions on arrival I felt it was the sight of a large number of houses perched on the mountain and clearly illuminated, which is offered to the eye as a second heaven". His excursion on Epomeo was no less because the sight was delighted and said that surely the poem was to be born there.
Elisa Beth Luise Vigee Lebrun
