A Venetian Affair Book

Acclaimed author Andrea di Robilant sweeps readers back to 18th-century Venice for a spellbinding tale of fobidden love. Originally serialized in The New Yorker, this dazzling story is based on actual letters the author's father found in the attic of the old family palazzo.

The letters describe a searing and illicit affair between the author's ancestor Andrea Memmo, a great Venetian statesman, and a beautiful half-English girl named Giustiniana Wynne. Flying in the face of morality, the couple pursued their passion with reckless abandon, offending nearly everyone, and even getting some help along the way from the infamous Casanova. In gambling dens, glitzy ballrooms, decadent salons and private rooms, the lovers thrived on their secret trysts and schemed to preserve their timeless romance.

Filled with exotic locales and steeped in international intrigue, A Venetian Affair is an utterly moving narrative of star-crossed lovers that no reader will ever forget.