Andrea Di Robilant, author portrait
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Andrea Di Robilant

ANDREA DI ROBILANT was born in Italy and educated in the United States at Columbia University, where he specialized in international affairs. After a career in journalism, he now teaches creative writing at the American University in Rome. He is the author of A Venetian Affair; Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon; Irresistible North: From Venice To Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers; Chasing the Rose and Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse.
This Earthly Globe
Face to Face
Autumn in Venice
Chasing the Rose
Irresistible North
Lucia
A Venetian Affair

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This Earthly Globe
Face to Face
Autumn in Venice
Chasing the Rose
Irresistible North
Lucia
A Venetian Affair

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