Andrea di Robilant is the author of A Venetian Affair, a 2003novel set in 18th centuryVenice. He attended Le Rosey, as well as Columbia University. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... Venice is known for its waterways and gondolas Gondola. ... Columbia University is a large private research university in New York City comprising, through its affiliates, five undergraduate colleges and sixteen graduate and professional schools. ...
You can listen to an interview with him here (http://www.engagingtheword.net/andreadirobilant.m3u).
One day, when diRobilant 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.
DiRobilant'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.
DiRobilant 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.
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