The Story of Rossetti's Mistress

Well this perhaps is one of histories mysteries type story, though one that probaly is not very well known and somewhat obsecure, but being both a romanic and a bit morbid when I first heard this story I fell in love with it and became fascinated so I decied to share it.

There was this poet in the Victorian age Dante Gabriel Rossetti and he was also a pre-rapphalite artist, and had a particular inrest in women with long golden hair, and he took a misstress whose name is unknown, and she was one of the models he used for his paintings, and though he loved her, he had always sort of taken her for granted, and did not spend much time with her, when she would come to fall ill and died, and after she died, he realized just how much he loved her and was overcome with grief and guilt and so he deiced he wanted her to be burried with this collection of sonnets he had written for her, which were called The House of Life, and this was the one and only copy of this manuscript so his friends at first tried to talk him out of it, and asked him to think about it and if was sure he wanted to do this, but he would not be convinced, and insisited, and so she was burried with the manuscript.

Well some 5 years later Dante had a change of mind and heart, and decided he wanted to manuscripts back and so he oredered to have the body dug up, and a firend of his, along with a Doctor, a Laywer, and a Police Officer were present when the body was exhumed, Dante himself was not there, his friend went in his stead so he would not have to see, but it is said, that when the coffin was opend up, Dante's mistress lay within, looking as perfect and pristine as the first day they burried her, with no sign of rot or decay, as if she had only been sleeping, and the only thing that had changed, was her hair had conitnued to grow so it filled the enitre coffin, but when they brought the manuscript out of the coffin, it had showed signs of age and rot, the pages had yellowed, and began to become tattered around the edges, and all 4 of the men that were present there. Dante's friend, and the doctor, policie officer, and laywer, signed a sworn affadivid testifying that this is what they had bore wittness to, swearing they that this is what the saw when the body was dug up

11:01 AM - 4/3/2007 - post comment

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