Liana Burgess was born on September 25, 1929 in Porto Civitanova, Macerata, Italy. She was married to Anthony Burgess and Benjamin Johnson. She died on December 3, 2007 in Monaco.
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.