Author: di Robilant, Andrea.
Title: A Venetian Affair: A True Story of Impossible Love in the Eighteenth Century.
Description: London Fourth Estate, 2004. Reprint ed. Paperback octavo, very good condition, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 303 pp. This story is set in 1754 in Venice. It is about Andrea Memmo, the handsome and gifted scion of a distinguished Venetian family who fell in love with a charming and illegitimate English woman, Giustiniana Wynne. The match was unthinkable in Andrea's society and family. Written by Andrea Memmo's great-great-great-great grandson after his father found letters written by Andrea to Giustiniana in the attic of the family's Venetian palazzo. ISBN: 0007154704

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