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313 pages ; 20 cm, In the attic of their old family palazzo on the Grand Canal, Andrea di Robilant's father had found the love letters of their ancestor Andrea Memmo, one of the last great Venetian statesmen, to a beautiful half-English girl named Giustiniana Wynne. Some of the letters were written in code, which di Robilant and his father cracked to reveal an illicit passion: Giustiniana was not of the elite ruling class and would never have been considered a suitable match for Andrea. But their acts of devotion were startlingly brazen. As their courtship unfolds, they plot elaborate marriage schemes that offend everyone, arrange secret trysts in borrowed rooms, cause trouble for the servants who must ferry their forbidden correspondence, and even weather an unwanted pregnancy, from which Giustiniana, with her wits and ingenuity and some crucial assistance from the infamous Casanova, emerges unscathed, Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2004, Includes bibliographical references and index

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Author

Di Robilant, Andrea, 1957-

Publisher

London : Harper Perennial

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781841155425

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.48 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13