Love from Venice Tyne & Wear 64 color illus

64 color illus

Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us

but it soon became a creative hub renowned around the world as a place where great music

all bound up with a steadfast attention to the feelings and expectations of each correspondent

across a wide variety of disciplines

Love from Venice Tyne & Wear 64 color illusIn the summer of 1957, anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, while rebelling against her family, Gill Johnson, aged twenty five, gave up her comfortable job at the National Gallery in London and travelled to Venice to take up a job teaching English to an aristocratic Italian family. 'Love from Venice' is her vivid evocation of that summer, the last hurrah of the European Grand Tour, when the international jet set lit upon the city for