- Mother of Paolo Andrea Burgess.
- Her mother was the Contessa Maria Lucrezia Pasi della Pergola, an amateur poet and painter who claimed to be descended from Attila the Hun.
- Father was Gilberto Macellari, a photographer and painter who died during World War II.
- Had a sister, Grazia, who died in a mountaineering accident.
- Anthony Burgess based the character of the seductive Italian photographer Paola Lucrezia Belli in his autobiographical novel "Beard's Roman Women" on her.
- Met her husband Anthony Burgess after unexpectedly writing two letters to him in praise of his books "A Clockwork Orange" and "Inside Mr. Enderby". She wasn't aware at the time that both novels were written by Burgess ("Inside Mr. Enderby" was published under the pseudonym Joseph Kell, to whom her second letter was addressed).
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