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In the Company of the Courtesan

In the Company of the Courtesan
  • Author(s): Sarah Dunant
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

1527. While the Papal city of Rome burns – brutally sacked by an invading army including Protestant heretics – two of her most interesting and wily citizens slip away, their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed as...

Miss Garnet’s Angel

Miss Garnet’s Angel
  • Author(s): Salley Vickers
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

There is something very old-fashioned and reassuring about Salley Vickers’ novel Miss Garnet’s Angel. The themes, self-discovery and redemption have the air of a bygone age, despite the novel being set in contemporary Venice in a world of holiday...

The Divorced Lady’s Companion to Living in Italy

The Divorced Lady’s Companion to Living in Italy
  • Author(s): Catherine McNamara
  • Location(s): Milan, Rome, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Marilyn Wade, half-Hungarian divorcée and mother of unflinching teens, moves to Milan to remap her womanhood. Rumour had it that Marilyn’s old icon Jean Harper met her Milanese lover on a singles trip to Macchu Pichu and went to...

The Venetian Contract

The Venetian Contract
  • Author(s): Marina Fiorato
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1500s

1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He...

The City of Falling Angels

The City of Falling Angels
  • Author(s): John Berendt
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Taking the fire that destroyed the Fenice theatre in 1996 as his starting point, John Berendt creates a unique and unforgettable portrait of Venice and its extraordinary inhabitants. Beneath the exquisite facade of the world’s most beautiful historic city,...

The Echoes of Love

The Echoes of Love
  • Author(s): Hannah Fielding
  • Location(s): Tuscany, Venice
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The Echoes of Love is a beautiful, poignant story of lost love and betrayal, unleashed passion and learning to love again, whatever the price. Venetia Aston-Montague has escaped to Italy’s most captivating city to work in her godmother s...

Venice for Pleasure

Venice for Pleasure
  • Author(s): J G Links
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

None of Venice’s innumerable chroniclers have portrayed the Serenissima’s character with quite such a combination of the scholarly, the informal and the intimate…Over the years thousands of readers, starting this book, have been relieved to encounter its famously undemanding...

A Sea of Troubles

A Sea of Troubles
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, draws Commissario Brunetti into the island’s close-knit community, bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders...

A Thousand Days in Venice

A Thousand Days in Venice
  • Author(s): Marlena de Blasi
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A love story centred around an older couple (the author’s story), and lots of food and recipes throughout the book, as she searches for the best ingredients along the atmospheric canals and byways and piazze.

A Venetian Affair

A Venetian Affair
  • Author(s): Andrea di Robilant
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 18th Century

It’s hard to imagine a more romantic real-life story than the long and forbidden love affair of the 18th-century Venetian nobleman Andrea Memmo and a half-English beauty named Giustiniana Wynne. Andrea Di Robilant’s A Venetian Affair is drawn in...

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