Italian villa owned by Napoleon's sister up for sale

New York

AFTER Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, his siblings were in a bind.

Each - and there were seven of them - had been elevated by their illustrious brother into the European nobility, and all of them, in their own way, suddenly found themselves personae non gratae in most of Europe.

Pauline, Napoleon's younger sister who had married the Italian prince Camillo Borghese, retreated to the Borghese Palace in Rome for a little while, and then, miserable, began to search around for a more suitable location to while away her later years in relative obscurity.

She finally settled on an 18th…