A Nineteenth-Century Countess’s Sultry Selfies

Anika Burgess at The New Yorker: Oldoini was born in Florence, in 1837, just two years before the announcement of a new photographic medium: the daguerreotype. In 1854, at sixteen, she married the twenty-eight-year-old Count de Castiglione; the following spring, they had a son, Georgio, and she had.