Liliana Macellari Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Liana Burgess was born on September 25, 1929 in Porto Civitanova, Macerata, Italy as Liliana Macellari. She was married to Anthony Burgess and Benjamin Johnson. She died on December 3, 2007 in Monaco.
Met her husband Anthony Burgess after unexpectedly writing two letters to him in praise of his books "A Clockwork Orange" and "Inside Mr. Enderby". She wasn't aware at the time that both novels were written by Burgess ("Inside Mr. Enderby" was published under the pseudonym Joseph Kell, to whom her second letter was addressed).
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Anthony Burgess based the character of the seductive Italian photographer Paola Lucrezia Belli in his autobiographical novel "Beard's Roman Women" on her.
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Had a sister, Grazia, who died in a mountaineering accident.
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Father was Gilberto Macellari, a photographer and painter who died during World War II.
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Her mother was the Contessa Maria Lucrezia Pasi della Pergola, an amateur poet and painter who claimed to be descended from Attila the Hun.