Hellenga, Robert. The Italian Lover.(Brief article)(Book review)

Hellenga, Robert. The Italian Lover. Little, Brown. Sept. 2007. c.352p. ISBN 978-0-316-11763-0. $23.99. F

Hellenga puts a twist on familiar terrain in this sequel to Tire Sixteen Pleasures. Metafictional gymnastics ensue when a Hollywood producer descends upon Florence with a cast and crew, determined to immortalize The Sixteen Pleasures on film. Renamed The Italian Lover, the producer's script retells the story of book conservator Margot Harrington and the manuscript of Renaissance erotica she rescued from obscurity. Margot, however, has written a script of her own and is determined not to let control of her own life …