ITALY
VENICE, Italy --- In an unromatically cold, wet drizzle
in mid-November, we traced the footsteps of Casanova through the narrow
alley-ways of this strikingly unique city, a major difference being that
we finished the trip with our britches on and our reputations intact.
Huddling for warmth in the Calle Mala Piero, an
alley hardly five feet wide, we watched the sharp wind toss whitecaps
upon the
Grand Canal, then entered a
small dead-end courtyard, where our guide, told us, in an Upperclass English
accent, about Angela, one of the many women who befriended the great lover.
“She, however, was a platonic friend,” said
Laria Lazarilli, an assertion that --- considering Casanova’s
risk-filled lifestyle --- raised some eyebrows. . . CONTINUE
Photo © Ellie Hilferty 2001 |
