Talk:Letizia Bonaparte/Archives 1

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The description of bathing habits seem exaggerated to me. According to Peter Englund many 1800th century upper-class Europeans almost never washed themselves with water! They just rubbed off the worst dirt with dry towels and changed underwear! Although the Bonapartes belonged to the nobility they could not afford to live more luxuriously than the bourgeoisie. If Maria Letizia got her children to bath every other day why did one third of them die as infants? The first one may have died as a toddler depending on where you draw the line between the ages. But this is how it was as far as I know. 2009-03-11 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.247.167.70 (talk) 17:17, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Portrait
A probably better portrait of Maria Letizia can be found here. It is so old that it does not have any copyright. If there originally was any such it has long expired by now. 2010-12-29 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.114.153.12 (talk) 13:21, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Nationality
Until 1768 Corsica was politically, ethnically and culturally part of Italy: in the article's lead Letizia Ramolino, born in 1750, can be defined either as Italian or Corsican (both are true), but "Corsican of Italian origin" is a nonsense. At the time of her birth, Corsica was a region of Italy like Tuscany or Latium. Alex2006 (talk) 19:32, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 24 October 2020

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The result of the move request was: Moved (non-admin closure) BegbertBiggs (talk) 19:31, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Letizia Ramolino → Letizia Bonaparte – that is the name by which she is best known as can be verified by some of the biographies about her   WP:RECOGNIZABILITY it is also the most commonly used name since she was known as "Madame Mère" ie de L'Empereur (Napoleon Bonaparte)" WP:COMMONNAME finally per WP:MAIDEN since she changed her name when she was only thirteen and therefore was called Bonaparte her whole life. Google Books Ngram  Aeengath (talk) 13:50, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per detailed and sourced nomination. The main title header for the article delineating Napoleon's father is "Carlo Buonaparte", thus even that surname form would have been more intuitive that her birth surname, "Ramolino". —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 15:42, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 18:47, 24 October 2020 (UTC)