Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, where nothing is linear and everything is connected. Thank you for joining me as we continue our journey into Capote's Coterie, the women and sometimes men, attached into the life of Tremon Capote. And this week,

we are continuing with another of Treman Capote's High Society 6, his swans. Of all the swans,

Morella Anjelli, has the least written about her. Her husband, like many of the other swans' husbands,

has been documented, interviewed, praised, and critiqued, much more than his wife. Living until

2019, Morella Anjali outlived all of the swans, dying just days after Lee Radzwell's death and outliving all the others by decades.

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Today, though, in this episode, our focus is Morella Anjeli. Again, the least written about her

of all the swans, but wowza. What a story. Beautiful and elegant with an impossibly long neck,

Morella Anjelli was born into an aristocratic family and married one of the wealthiest men in the

world. Born Donna Morella Caracciolo de Principi de Castagnetto on May the 4th, 1927, in Florence, to an Italian noble family.

She was raised in a conservative and sheltered world.

Her entire 91-year life cannot be described as anything but glamorous and lavish.

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