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From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: December 9, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Lucia in the Age of Napoleon

BY ANDREA DI ROBILANT

FABER, pounds 20, 336 pp

T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

Andrea di Robilant specialises in the sexual secrets of his ancestors. His first book, A Venetian Affair, based on a remarkable cache of letters - mostly in code - told the story of the clandestine love between his 18th-century forebear, Andrea Memmo, and an alluring young creature called Giustiniana Wynne. The discovery of still more family correspondence has resulted in Lucia in the Age of Napoleon, which introduces us to Memmo's eldest daughter, and di Robilant's ...

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