# The Italian Lover

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- Book: [The Italian Lover](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-hellenga/the-italian-lover) ([The Italian Lover.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-hellenga/the-italian-lover.md))
- Authors: [Robert Hellenga](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-hellenga)
- Publisher: Little Brown US
- ISBN: 978-03-1611-765-4
- Published: 2009-03-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Margot Harrington's memoir about her discovery in Florence of a priceless masterwork of Renaissance erotica - and the misguided love aff air it inspired - is now, 25 years later, being made into a film. Margot, with the help of her lover, Woody, writes a script that she thinks will validate her life. Of course, their script is not used, but never mind - happy endings are the best endings for films, as Margot eventually comes to see. At the former convent in Florence where The Sixteen Pleasures - now called The Italian Lover - is being filmed, Margot enters into a drama she never imagined, where her ideas of home, love, art and aging collide with the imperatives of commerce and the unknowability of other cultures and other people.