Lucia works as a servant girl in Italy and is engaged to be\nmarried. But after the pox disfigures her face, she flees in shame\nwithout telling her lover. Years later, as a reknowned Amsterdam\ncourtesan who never goes out without her veil, Lucia is at the\ntheater when she recognizes her long-lost fiancé, Giacomo Casanova;\nand she cannot resist the opportunity to encounter him again. Based\non a woman who appeared briefly in Casanova’s legendary diaries,\nLucia emerges as a brilliant woman who becomes every bit his match.\n_In Lucia’s Eyes_ is an elegant and moving story of love\ndenied and transformed.

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From the Trade Paperback edition.

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