In Lucia's Eyes
Lucia, a servant girl, is engaged to a young man named Casanova, but flees when stricken with the pox, embarking on a wanderer's life for sixteen years until she is accidentally reunited with Casanova, who has become a legendary lover.
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Lucia works as a servant girl in Italy and is engaged to be married. But after the pox disfigures her face, she flees in shame without telling her lover. Years later, as a reknowned Amsterdam courtesan who never goes out without her veil, Lucia is at the theater when she recognizes her long-lost fiancé, Giacomo Casanova; and she cannot resist the opportunity to encounter him again. Based on a woman who appeared briefly in Casanova’s legendary diaries, Lucia emerges as a brilliant woman who becomes every bit his match. In Lucia’s Eyes is an elegant and moving story of love denied and transformed.
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