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di Robilant, Andrea. A Venetian Affair.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Oct. 2003. 304p. Knopf, $24 (0-375-41181-X). 937.
This wonderful account has all the elements of a great romantic novel, including star-crossed young lovers, an unwanted and hidden pregnancy, and diplomatic and romantic intrigue, cast against the setting of the final years of the independent Venetian Republic. But this is truth, not fiction, which adds a special poignancy to an absorbing but rather sad story. Di Robilant was born in Italy, educated at Columbia University, and is currently a correspondent for the Italian newspaper Las Stampa. When his father discovered a cache of letters in their ancestral home in Venice, it eventually revealed a long but ill-fated love affair between their eighteenth-century ancestor Andrea Memmo and an Anglo-Venetian young woman, Giustiniana Wynne. Andrea was a scion of ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) February 29, 2004 700+ words
...books at your local library. The books "A Venetian Affair," by Andrea Di Robilant. This intriguing story of the ill-fated love affair between Giustiniana Wynne and Andrea Memmo is recreated through their 18th-century letters, discovered...
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