A review by disconightwing
The Rossetti Letter by Christi Phillips

4.0

This is a book about a historian who is writing a dissertation on a seventeenth-century courtesan who exposed a conspiracy against the Venitian Republic. The story is told from two points of view: Alessandra's (the courtesan's) and Claire's (the historian's). While working on her dissertation, Claire hears about a scholar who is planning to release a book on the same subject. She volunteers to babysit a fourteen-year-old in Venice so that she can have the opportunity to go. While it doesn't go as smoothly as she hopes, she at least gets to visit a library and view original source matieral for her paper (and gets to be romanced by a cute Italian man at teh same time).