A review by laurafox
The Rossetti Letter by Christi Phillips

3.0

Okay, I might have given this four stars, if only for the completely ridiculous notion that any graduate student working on early modern Italy (at Harvard, no less!) would have been able, nay, allowed to write most of their dissertation without doing any foreign archival research. That really just knocked it down for me. Although I did enjoy the parts set in 17th-century Venice...