Evelina van Millingen

[1] Strong disagreement over Evelina's and her brothers' educational placements and religious upbringing precipitated their parents' divorce.

She hosted international travelers at the villa,[5] including Henry James[6] and Augusta, Lady Gregory.

[7] Evelina van Millingen married Count Almorò III Pisani in 1852, in Venice.

[8] The family's former villa in Vescovana, now an inn, encourages visitors to look and listen for Evelina's ghost haunting her gardens.

[9] An event every spring, "I Bulbi di Evelina Pisani", celebrates the blooming of her tulip gardens.

A tulip garden, first introduced by Evelina, Countess Pisani, still maintained at Villa Pisani (Vescovana)