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	Romeo and Juliet in Venice - The Boston Globe
		One day, when di Robilant was young, his father came home with a pile of very old letters he had uncovered in the attic of what had once been a family home, near the Grand Canal.
		Di Robilant's unfortunate father may have found letters by Andrea to flesh out the story, but it is ultimately Giustiniana Wynne's personality that shines through, at her most interesting and recognizable while she is struggling to resign herself to the growing understanding that she and Andrea can hope only to be friends.
		Di Robilant writes at one point: "Even as they had carried on their separate lives, Andrea and Giustiniana had continued to write to each other more as lovers than as friends.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/03/14/romeo_and_juliet_in_venice/?page=1 (882 words)

	Venice - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Cavalieri di San Marco was the only order of chivalry ever instituted in Venice, and no citizen could accept or join a foreign order without the government’s consent.
		The buildings of Venice are constructed on closely spaced poles (made of a wood specially chosen because it strengthens with age), or pilings, which penetrate alternating layers of clay and sand.
		By the end of the century, Venice was famous for the splendor of its music, as exemplified in the "colossal style" of Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, which used multiple choruses and instrumental groups.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /venice.htm (2660 words)

	Hoover Institution - Policy Review - The Soccer Divide
		Castel di Sangro’s predicament in 1996-97 was familiar to Italians, who often use soccer terms such as promozione and retrocessione — the upgrading and downgrading within the various leagues — to chart the political and economic course of the nation as a whole.
		Castel di Sangro turned out to be a rather uninspiring team trained by a conservative coach who liked to play the safest possible game of soccer, with most players bunched up in front of the home goal and one lonely forward up front waiting patiently for the ball and, presumably, for a piccolo miracolo.
		Still, his sketchy portrait of Castel di Sangro as a town of high-strung neurotics with a warm heart is a welcome antidote to the recent spate of best sellers peddling the phony image of modern Italy as a sun-drenched land of earthly delights.
	www.hoover.org /publications/policyreview/3495511.html (1660 words)

	A passion unmasked - www.theage.com.au
		Count Alvise di Robilant had found the missing archive of a clandestine relationship, a class scandal with political ramifications, that was known only patchily to scholars.
		Although he was born in Bologna of Piedmontese origin, di Robilant's august Venetian heritage meant everything to him and he had never really got over seeing the contents of his boyhood home on the Grand Canal, the Palazzo Mocenigo, sold and dismantled.
		Di Robilant follows the lovers' story through separation, marriages and ultimately a friendship that lasted until their deaths.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/01/23/1074732595129.html?from=storyrhs (1382 words)

	The Humblest Blog on the Net
		Di Robilant’s family knew the story of the two lovers by heart, and his father, after finding an unexpected cache of private letters, wished to write a book telling their story.
		The tale Di Robilant writes is based on their letters during their secret courtship while in Venice, and throughout their entire lives.
		Di Robilant explains their situations quite well, and gives you a real sense of the history and traditions that locked these two in a secret love that followed until their deaths.
	www.thehumblest.net /humblog/00000090.html (513 words)

	Three Monkeys A Venetian Affair - Andrea di Robilant in interview.
		Andrea starts off the book as the seemingly more experienced lover who counsels Giustiniana in how she must comport herself, and it is he that leads the way in the plot to marry her off.
		Andrea devoted an incredible amount of energy and ingenuity in trying to convince his family and the authorities that they should be allowed to get married, and it was incredibly brave and courageous, so I give him his due for that.
		While he may defend Andrea’s behaviour, it’s easy to see who captivated the author during his research.” I have a great deal of sympathy for Giustiniana: she was a terrific girl, bright, creative, with a wonderful spirit, which comes across in her letters.
	www.threemonkeysonline.com /threemon_printable.php?id=66 (1935 words)

	A Venetian Affair - Andrea Di Robilant. Andrea Di Robilant, author of A Venetian Affair, talks to Three Monkeys Online ...
		Andrea di Robilant is a soft spoken Italian journalist, with just the slightest hint of an American accent coming through, (he has American family roots on his motherâs side, and for a number of years was the La Stampa correspondent in America).
		Di Robilant explains âIt was a social structure that was very old, obsolete, and anachronistic in many ways.
		Di Robilant is neutral in the book, preferring not to judge, but in conversation he is more defensive of his protagonists: âI have a great deal of sympathy.
	www.threemonkeysonline.com /article_A_Venetian_Affair_andrea_di_robilant.htm (1178 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - The Venetian Affair
		Some of the letters were written in code, which di Robilant and his father cracked to reveal an illicit passion: Giustiniana was not of the elite ruling class and would never have been considered a suitable match for Andrea.
		Andrea di Robilant, heir to the lovers' legacy, captures them in the twilight of the golden era of Venice, with forays to the colorful social circles of London and Paris along the way.
		Description: Andrea di Robilant begins this spellbinding true story with his father's discovery of a box of 18th century love letters buried in their old family palazzo in Venice.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=53635038 (418 words)

	Amazon.com: A Venetian Affair: Books: Andrea Di Robilant,Andrea Robilant,Paul Hecht (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Andrea Memmo is the scion of an ancient Venetian family, destined by blood and talent to become one of the most powerful politican-functionaries of a dying republic.
		Di Robilant also puts in excerpts from the two lovers' letters, giving the reader a sense of proximity to this book, which reads more like a novel than a straightforward book on history.
		Di Robilant catches the air of mid-18th century Venice perfectly: the salons, the balls, and the intrigues.
	www.amazon.com /Venetian-Affair-Andrea-Di-Robilant/dp/1402557736 (2150 words)

	'A Venetian Affair' by Andrea Di Robilant - Poetry Connection
		Andrea Di Robilant's A Venetian Affair is drawn in part from a cache of letters discovered by the author's father in his ancestral palazzo on the Grand Canal.
		In 1753, his ancestor Andrea Memmo had been introduced to a lovely girl of uncertain station (illegitimate, although her parents later married).
		Di Robilant also did an incredible job of giving the reader a sense of what life in Venice and in Europe was really like at that time -- in everything from customs to fashion.
	www.poetryconnection.net /ItemId/037541181X (891 words)

	Borders - Feature - A Venetian Affair
		Andrea di Robilant's elegant and meticulously researched book about them grew out of his father's discovery of a cache of their clandestine love letters, found in the attic of his family's former Venetian palazzo 200 years later.
		For di Robilant, this book is not mere historical research, but a tribute to his father and his family.
		In di Robilant's intimate portrait of 18th-century Venice, marriage is not the private or romantic affair that it is today.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=venetianaffair_rg (1208 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| A Venetian Affair by Andrea di Robilant
		Andrea di Robilant’s elegant and meticulously researched book about them grew out of his father’s discovery of a cache of their clandestine love letters, found in the attic of his family’s former Venetian palazzo two hundred years later.
		In di Robilant’s intimate portrait of eighteenth-century Venice, marriage is not the private or romantic affair that it is today.
		Andrea di Robilant was born in Italy and educated at Le Rosey and Columbia University, where he specialized in international affairs.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375726170&view=rg (1311 words)

	Online buy - A Venetian Affair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Di Robilant was born in Italy, educated at Columbia University, and is currently a correspondent for the Italian newspaper Las Stampa.
		Andrea was a scion of one of the most prominent Venetian families and Giustiniana was illegitimate.
		But their letters and di Robilant's insightful commentary convey a moving sense of youthful innocence and devotion while showing us a lost world of glittering salons, masked balls, and aristocratic honor and arrogance.
	astore.amazon.com /chuvashiaportal/detail/037541181X (990 words)

	Books \| Actually, Casanova, you're not my type
		Andrea Memmo had been born into a family which counted itself among the founding fathers of the Venetian Republic.
		Their love is compelling for the fact that Andrea's patrician career and the reputation of his illustrious family could never have survived a formal match, and also because it crushed all hope of a respectable marriage for Giustiniana.
		The former reference is to samples of semen that Memmo would dispatch via trusted courier to his beloved; the latter is to a lone fantasy during a time the lovers occasionally shared a dank, clandestine love nest with other similarly outcast couples.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4843626-99937,00.html (900 words)

	A Venetian Affair by Andrea Di Robilant - The Dark Spiral
		The voices of the clandestine lovers comes through amid the tapestry of mid-eighteenth century venice, spans the decline of the great city and is practically a primer on social and political life in England and on the Continent during the Seven Years' War.
		Finally, as the letters cease, Andrea Di Robilant does not leave the story there, but researches out the end of their lives, seeing her return to Italy, his rise in politics in Venice, her growing literary career, and ending ultimately with a quote from her penultimate letter.
		Not only does Di Robilant care about this long-ago couple and their passions, positions and persecution, the reader is impervious to help but care about them as well.
	www.darkspiral.com /item/037541181X (701 words)

	Amazon.fr : A Venetian Affair: Livres en anglais: Andrea Di Robilant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Written in the mid-1700s by his ancestor, Andrea Memmo, scion of an ancient Venetian family, to Giustiniana Wynne, the illegitimate daughter of a British father and a Venetian mother, these letters helped complete the picture of a romance-much of which had been detailed in the memoirs of Giacomo Casanova-that has long intrigued scholars.
		Andrea and Giustiniana met in 1753, when he was 24 and she was not yet 17.
		Giustiniana's mother, fearing that the affair would jeopardize her daughter's chance to make a respectable marriage, forbade her to see Andrea, so the two met secretly and carried on a clandestine correspondence, writing hundreds of passionate letters full of the intimate details of their daily lives and other love affairs.
	www.amazon.fr /Venetian-Affair-Andrea-Di-Robilant/dp/037541181X (642 words)

	Covert Operations - New York Times
		Andrea and Giustiniana's extraordinary story might well have been lost to us (though not entirely, since Casanova told some of it) had not di Robilant's father, a descendant of Andrea Memmo through his great-grandmother, come across a moldering packet of letters in the attic of a grand palazzo that his family had long ago lost.
		Cracking the secret code in which some of them were written, the elder di Robilant worked for years to find a way to tell the story, but he died before he could finish.
		For her part, Giustiniana confessed that Andrea's character as a philosopher was an important part of his attraction: she loved him not only for his ''rich imagination'' but because he was ''precise and clearheaded in his thinking.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02EEDA173EF935A15753C1A9659C8B63 (554 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Venetian Affair by Andrea Di Robilant
		I am not aware that the lovers were flmailed in Venice, though Giustiniana's relationship with Andrea was the object of flmail when she was in Paris, scheming to marry the rich fermier général La Pouplinière.
		Andrea was a notorious womanizer and Giustiniana feared he was spending his time with other women despite the fact that he gave her detailed accounts of his daily activities.
		The reasoning behind her (and Andrea's) scheming was that since the two of them could not marry, the shortest path to happiness was for her to marry a rich old man in order to ensure for herself a comfortable station for the future, and then carry on her romance with Andrea.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/venetian_affair2.asp (1122 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Andrea Di Robilant - A Venetian Affair at Epinions.com
		Andrea Memmo was among the last of the great statesmen of Venice (50 years after the start of the book, Napolean begins his European coquest).
		It is important to note that they were aware they could never be married and so they set about an elaborate plan for her to marry Smith (an octogenarian) so they could carry on their love affair and possibly marry after his death (due to her elevated status).
		Di Robilant started his writing career as a journalist for La Stampa (Italian newspaper) but the writing is so lyrical that I hope he concentrates on novels or historical works from now on.
	www.epinions.com /content_131253964420 (907 words)

	Amazon.de: A Venetian Affair: English Books: Andrea Di Robilant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Andrea Di Robilant's A Venetian Affair is drawn in part from a cache of letters discovered by the author's father in his ancestral palazzo on the Grand Canal.
		In 1753, his ancestor Andrea Memmo had been introduced to a lovely girl of uncertain station (illegitimate, although her parents later married).
		Although Memmo went on to have an illustrious career in the dying Venetian Republic, it is Giustiniana's astonishing later life that really captures the reader.
	www.amazon.de /Venetian-Affair-Andrea-Di-Robilant/dp/037541181X (536 words)

	Evolving Cities 060101A
		Andrea di Robilant is an Italian journalist from an old Venetian family who's made a novel out of the story contained in some letters from his family's attic.
		Andrea di Robilant tells the story to Anne Strainchamps, and we hear excerpts from the letters read by actors Colleen Madden and Jim Burns of American Players Theater, all set to music from the great days of the Venetian Republic.
		Also, John Berendt is the author of "The City of Falling Angels." He tells Anne Strainchamps that Venice still feels like a stage set, and that Venetians still carry on in dramatic, even operatic ways, and cites the example of the fire in the famous opera house.
	www.wpr.org /book/060101a.html (486 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Venetian Affair: a True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century: Books: Andrea Di Robilant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Andrea Memmo is the scion of an ancient Venetian family that is destined to become one of the most powerful in a dying republic.
		I wholeheartedly agree with all the readers who have praised Andrea di Robilant's elegant and stylish writing (since he is Italian, and thus English is not his first language, his merit is double).
		di Robilant never imposes on the reader, presenting the naked facts (as far as they can be reconstructed) for each of us to make his or her very personal interpretation.
	www.amazon.ca /Venetian-Affair-True-Forbidden-Century/dp/0375726179 (1450 words)

	Textbooks by Andrea Di Robilant - Direct Textbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Andrea Di Robilant - Alfred A. Knopf - 096543432X
		Andrea Di Robilant - Harpercollins Pub Ltd - 1841155411
		Andrea di Robilant - Recorded Books, LLC - 1402561792
	www.directtextbook.com /author/andrea-di-robilant (144 words)

	Di Robilant, Andrea. A Venetian Affair: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the Eighteenth Century Kliatt - Find Articles
		Andrea di Robilant, a correspondent for the Italian newspaper La Stampa, makes his nonfiction debut with the story of one of his ancestors, Venetian noble Andrea Memmo, and his love affair with Giustiniana Wynne, an illegitimate daughter of questionable birthright.
		Di Robilant's father discovered a packet of old letters at his ancestral home in Venice, which forms the basis for this book.
		He died before he could complete his research, so Andrea di Robilant continued the work in order to share this story with the world.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PBX/is_4_39/ai_n14813920 (386 words)

	Powell's Books - A Venetian Affair by Andrea Di Robilant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		"Andrea di Robilant sensibly declines to go beyond existing evidence in order to supply the kind of elegiac finale which the story seems to invite....In this uneasily shifting perspective (refreshingly free of the usual masks-and-mandolins paraphernalia surrounding most evocations of rococo Venice) the lovers' voices reverberate with a transcendent confidence and sincerity."
		Andrea di Robilant's story of Andrea Memmo and Giustiniana Wynne is so immediate, vivid, and powerful that it takes you inside the minds and, indeed, the bodies of its two passionate protagonists.
		Andrea di Robilant hasn't just brought a splendid Venetian love affair to life, he has brought eighteenth-century Europe to life, both intimately and grandly.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=037541181x&atch=h&atchi=435348 (692 words)

	Review of A VENETIAN AFFAIR by Andrea di Robilant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Di Robilant and his father uncover a cache of letters in the attic of their ancient family palace on the Grand Canal in Venice.
		They reveal a love affair between their ancestor Andrea Memmo, one of Venice's great statesmen, and half-English Giustiniana Wynne.
		With a deft hand, the author evokes a period of masked balls and secret liaisons, placing readers at the epicenter of a beautiful and thrilling romance.
	www.romantictimes.com /bookpage.php?bookid=20326 (165 words)

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