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Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Venier family waned, and the project was left abandoned and unfinished. Yet in the early 20th century, it attracted three fascinating women: Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim.

No se entiende a Cleopatra sin César ni Marco Antonio, ni a Helena de Troya sin Paris, ni a Frida Kahlo sin Diego Rivera, ni a Simone de Beauvoir sin Jean-Paul Sartre o a Virginia Woolf sin Leonard Woolf... Este libro es un relato personal, un viaje a través de mis inquietudes y lecturas, mi encuentro con historias protagonizadas por mujeres, ya sean reales o criaturas literarias, sin olvidar el papel de los hombres que estuvieron cerca de ellas, para bien o para mal.