The jewel of Italy is the perfect place to fall in love! A Venetian Passion Catherine George A trip to Venice was just the change of scenery Laura needed.
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The jewel of Italy is the perfect place to fall in love! A Venetian Passion Catherine George
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.
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 ...
It's hard to imagine a more romantic real-life story than the long and forbidden love affair of the 18th century Venetian nobleman Andrea Memmo and a half-English beauty named Giustiniana Wynne.
A Venetian Affair is a feel good romance, that avid romance readers are bound to enjoy - The Never Ending Bookshelf 'I give this book five out of five stars. If you want a great romance then you must read A Venetian Affair.
Love letters of Andrea Memmo to a beautiful half-English girl named Giustiniana Wynne were found in an attic.
The author describes the discovery of letters written by his eighteenth-century ancestor, Venetian statesman Andrea Memmo, revealing a secret affair between Memmo and Giustiniana Wynne, a beautiful half-English girl.
In 1754 Andrea Memmo, the dashing and gifted scion of a distinguished Catholic family, fell in love with the beautiful Giustiniana Wynne, a match which the rules of the time forbade.
The true story of forbidden love in eighteenth-century Venice between an Italian noble and the brilliant, illegitimate daughter of an English baronet.