A tale of folklore and murder, set in the SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
Carnevale
Location(s): Venice
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century
1782. The 13-year old daughter of a Venetian merchant family is lured naked from her bath by a stray cat and finds herself in the arms of Casanova – the legendary seducer of women.
Twenty-five years later Cecilia is in Albania, now a portrait painter of some renown, her fame in this area eclipsed only by her reputation as the last woman in Venice to have been loved by Casanova. Enter a young man from England, a troubled poet, looking for adventure at any price – a man who begins his affair with Cecilia with the announcement ‘I rather look on love as a hostile transaction.’ For Cecilia, who had blossomed under the tender, unselfish love of another man, Byron proves a rude awakening.
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