A Venetian Affair: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
of Andrea di Robilant
Description
In the waning days of Veniceâs glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the cityâs 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 Giustinianaâs mother, afraid that an affair would ruin her daughterâs 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 Casanovaâhimself 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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- Format Paperback
- Pages 291 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date April 12th 2005
- First Publication 11/06/03
- Language English
- ISBN 9780375726170
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
- Scenario ['Venice (Italy)']
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