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Venetian Affair
A True Story of Impossible Love in the Eighteenth Century
Venetian Affair
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Author:
Di Robilant, Andrea
ISBN:
978-0-00-715470-8
Publication Date:
Oct 2003
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Imprint:
Fourth Estate
Book Format:
Paperback
List Price:
AUD $29.95
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Book Details
Pages:
352
Detailed Subjects:
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
Physical Dimensions
(W X L X H)
:
15 x 23 cm
Book Weight:
0.47 Kilograms
Author Biography
Di Robilant, Andrea
(Author)
Andrea di Robilant was born in Italy. He was educated at Le Rosey and Columbia University. He is an Italian journalist and writer. In 2003 he wrote his first book A Venetian Affair. It is a biography of his ancestor in 18th century Venice based on their correspondence; and a sequel entitled Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon was released in 2008. It was in this book that the search to uncover the identity of the anonymous rose began. Di Robilant¿s describes a pink rose that leads to an invitation to meet the doyenne of European roses, Sra. Eleonora Garlant. The question is- could this unnamed rose possibly be the long-lost Rose Bichonne, a China rose that nineteenth-century growers cultivated but which had apparently disappeared since? In 2011 he published Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers, in which he analyses the claim that two Venetian merchants, the Zeno brothers, sailed over the north Atlantic in a pre-Columbian expedition to North America.
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