A visual and literary feast for romantics everywhere. 'A full-color picture book for adults that tells a wrenching story of eternal love.'-NPR Books 'To truly love another, you must follow the lover's path wherever it may take you. .' Filamena Ziani is the much younger sister of the most famous courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice, Tullia Ziani. Orphaned as an infant, Filamena has come of age bent like a branch to her sister's will, sheltered and lonely in the elegant but stifling confines