Why they sighed on the bridge A Venetian love affair which had remained a secret for 250 years has been movingly disinterred, says Frances Wilson

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: February 8, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

A Venetian Affair: A True

Story of Impossible Love

in the Eighteenth Century

by Andrea Di Robilant

Fourth Estate, pounds 16.99, 313 pp

pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222

ONE OF THE pleasures of biography is that it legitimises the reading of other people's mail. And one of the many pleasures of A Venetian Affair is that the letters between the star-crossed lovers, Andrea Memmo and Giustiniana Wynne, from which Andrea Di Robilant has composed his vivid and unforgettable story, have, until now, been read by no one other than the person to whom they were addressed, 250 years ago, ...

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