A VENETIAN AFFAIR

A Venetian Aair

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In 1754 Andrea Memmo, the dashing and gifted scion of a distinguished Catholic family, fell in love with the beautiful Giustiniana Wynne, a match which the rules of the time forbade Their impossible love was to last six tumultuous years The lovers chased each other through peeling palazzos, ballrooms, salons, theatres and gambling dens rubbing shoulders with Canaletto Tiepolo and others Increasingly desperate, they decided Giustiniana should marry so they could continue to see one another She passed a summer irting with the English patron of the arts, Consul Joseph Smith, while writing comical letters to her lover nearby But Smith soon realized the deception The aair became public, with disastrous consequences The lovers' friend, Casanova, was imprisoned for his pernicious inuence

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