To the Editor:
Your Sept. 1 news article on the arrival of Pizza Hut in Parma, Italy, refers erroneously to Napoleon's widow, the Duchess of Parma (as well as of Piacenza and Gustalla), as Maria Luisa of Bourbon-Parma. The duchess was Marie Louise of Hapsburg, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis II (later Emperor of Austria as Francis I).
There was indeed a Maria Luisa of Parma. She was the daughter of Duke Philip of Parma and became Queen of Spain when she married King Charles IV. EGON RADVANY New York, Sept. 1, 1994