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Margot Harrington's memoir about her discovery in Florence of a priceless masterwork of Renaissance erotica-and the misguided love affair it inspired-is now, 25 years later, being made into a movie. 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 movies, as Margot eventually comes to see. At the former convent inFlorencewhere "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. | The Italian Lover by Robert Hellenga, Paperback | Indigo Chapters