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Lady Mary: It might be a while till I can do a proper write up, but I couldn't resist and read the biography in the last few nights when I couldn't sleep. Insomnia: good for reading. for now, have this tasty morsel: in 1756, i.e.years and years after their last (bad) meeting at Turin, it's actually Algarotti who contacts Lady Mary (still living the expatriate life in Italy) and wants to be friends. They actually manage it this time, not least because she no longer has romantic expectations. Otoh, she's not above making the following quip, writing home to England and describing how everyone is doing to mutual aquaintances in 1759: ...and Algarotti is busy composing a panegyric to whoever comes out on top in this war...

Tsk. Do we think Algarotti would have written an ode to MT had she won?