VENETIAN AFFAIR, A(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　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 Casanova–himself
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.

　　Andrea di Robilant was born in Italy and educated at Le Rosey
and Columbia University, where he specialized in international
affairs. He currently lives in Rome with his wife and two children
and works as a correspondent for the Italian newspaper La
Stampa. This is his first book.