Cecilia Maria de Candia (* born, December 24, 1853, Brighton, England - d. May 26, 1926, Bordighera, Italy), later Mrs Godfrey Pearse, was a British-Italian writer, amateur singer and society hostess.
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After sharing homes in London and seasonal time in a Mediterranean residence in the Ligurian region, bordering Monaco and Piemonte, she decided to conduct research work for her next book at her father's home—the Villa Salviati in Tuscany collecting old letters and pictures; short time after she contracted an illness and died in Bordighera, Italy.
Colahan created the 'Sirena' fountain for the Italian town of Bordighera.
The daughter of Archibald Balfour, a London businessman and merchant in Russia, Edith Balfour was educated privately and moved in the aristocratic circle of friends known as the "Souls", which included A. J. Balfour, George Curzon, Margot Tennant (later Asquith), and Alfred Lyttelton, whom she married at Bordighera on the Italian Riviera in April 1892 after the death of his first wife.
According to Benham (see below)Goodchild had a private medical practice in Bordighera, Italy, serving mainly expatriate Britons.
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According to Benham, whilst visiting Bordighera, Italy, Goodchild bought a 'bowl and a platter' seen in a tailor's shop.
After a few months in Genoa, Bordighera and Rome she fulfilled her desire to live in a beautiful region by moving to Capri, where she lived in the Villa Monacone with her partner, Antonio Spadaro.
It was opened on 27 September 2001, with the opening of the new double-track line between Bordighera and Imperia, which is a deviation of the Genoa–Ventimiglia line, built mainly in tunnel.
As archaeologist she has taught several technical courses in Empuries and with international Franco-Spanish teams has excavated at sites of scientific importance as the oriental palace of Cancho Roano, (Zalamea de la Serena, Badajoz, Spain) or the Gallo-Roman town of Bibracte (Mount-Beuvary, Nièvre, France ), and in numerous sites of different periods and types of Spain, Catalonia (Ullastret, Ampurias ...) and Europe (Saint-Remy-de-Provence, Bourges, Bordighera, Liguria ...).
In 1769, Pope Clement XIII banned the piece, and one year later his successor imprisoned Bordighera, branding him a heretic.