Biography
Daughter of Duke Giulio Hardouin of Gallese and Natalia Lezzani, she met D'Annunzio in 1883. The relationship was opposed by her family, due to the difference in class between the two. D'Annunzio continued to see Maria secretly, until the "sin of May" ( Italian: ''peccato di maggio'') and the escape of the two toReferences
{{reflist People from Rome Italian nobility 19th-century Italian women 20th-century Italian women 1864 births 1954 deaths