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In 'Mitridate, re di Ponto' (1770) by Mozart, Aspasia is the Queen, pledged in marriage to Mitridate.In 'Axur, re d'Ormus' (1788) by Salieri, Aspasia is Atar's wife. In 'La pietra del paragone' (1812) by Gioachino Rossini, Aspasia is a baroness.In 1834, Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) wrote 'Ciclo di Aspasia' a collection of poems dedicated to Fanny, his love interest. He used the pseudonym Aspasia instead of her real name.
Aspasia Manos (1896-1972) was the commoner wife of Alexander I, King of the Hellenes (Greece). Due to the controversial nature of their marriage, she was only ever titled as "Princess of Greece and Denmark". She is the mother of Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia, and the grandmother of the current pretender to the throne of Yugoslavia, Alexander, Crow Prince of Yugoslavia.

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