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A Venetian Affair : A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century by Andrea Di Robilant (2005, Trade Paperback)

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Venetian Affair, Paperback by Di Robilant, Andrea, ISBN 0375726179, ISBN-13 9780375726170, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The discovery of a box of eighteenth-century love letters thrusts Andrea di Robilant into an adventure of familial intrique that will carry him back hundreds of years to the golden era of Venice and into the middle of a secret love affair between Venetian statesman Andrea Memmo and Giustiniana Wynne, a beautiful, half-English girl. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

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In the waning days of Venice's glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city's oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter of a Venetian mother and British father. Because of their dramatically different positions in society, they could not marry. And Giustiniana's mother, afraid that an affair would ruin her daughter's chances to form a more suitable union, forbade them to see each other. Her prohibition only fueled their desire and so began their torrid, secret seven-year-affair, enlisting the aid of a few intimates and servants (willing to risk their own positions) to shuttle love letters back and forth and to help facilitate their clandestine meetings. Eventually, Giustiniana found herself pregnant and she turned for help to the infamous Casanovahimself infatuated with her. Two and half centuries later, the unbelievable story of this star-crossed couple is told in a breathtaking narrative, re-created in part from the passionate, clandestine letters Andrea and Giustiniana wrote to each other.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375726179
ISBN-13
9780375726170
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Venetian Affair : a True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
Author
Andrea Di Robilant
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, Europe / Italy, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Customs & Traditions, Historical
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz

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Dg678.4.D5 2003
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"Splendidly engrossing. . . . An extraordinary story." -- The New York Times Book Review "Jane Austen herself could not have conjured a romance with more passion, deception and intrigue."-- People "Thoroughly fascinating. . . . Has all the hallmarks of a Henry James novel. . . . Interweaving dramatic scenes and keenly observed expository passages [di Robilant] creates a narrative of novelistic resonance." -- The Washington Post Book World "A story of Venice at at time when people lived for romantic intrigue and where social and political restrictions led men and women into liaisons that made for delicious, tormented melodrama." - -Salon "Filled with quiet intensity and elegant, thought-provoking proseâ€¦An elegiac and powerful novel with a fresh presentation of evil and the healing potential of forgiveness." -- People, "Splendidly engrossing. . . . An extraordinary story." --The New York Times Book Review "Jane Austen herself could not have conjured a romance with more passion, deception and intrigue."--People "Thoroughly fascinating. . . . Has all the hallmarks of a Henry James novel. . . . Interweaving dramatic scenes and keenly observed expository passages [di Robilant] creates a narrative of novelistic resonance." --The Washington Post Book World "A story of Venice at at time when people lived for romantic intrigue and where social and political restrictions led men and women into liaisons that made for delicious, tormented melodrama." --Salon "Filled with quiet intensity and elegant, thought-provoking proseâ€¦An elegiac and powerful novel with a fresh presentation of evil and the healing potential of forgiveness." --People From the Trade Paperback edition., "Splendidly engrossing. . . . An extraordinary story." --The New York Times Book Review "Jane Austen herself could not have conjured a romance with more passion, deception and intrigue."--People "Thoroughly fascinating. . . . Has all the hallmarks of a Henry James novel. . . . Interweaving dramatic scenes and keenly observed expository passages [di Robilant] creates a narrative of novelistic resonance." --The Washington Post Book World "A story of Venice at at time when people lived for romantic intrigue and where social and political restrictions led men and women into liaisons that made for delicious, tormented melodrama." --Salon "Filled with quiet intensity and elegant, thought-provoking proseâ€¦An elegiac and powerful novel with a fresh presentation of evil and the healing potential of forgiveness." --People
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2002-043438

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