Love and Lucia Author:Barbara Cartland 1824. With her father dying of starvation, Lucia had to sell his paintings. In desperation she accosted the Marquis of Wynchcombe who, bored with his life with his Venetian mistress, set taking coffee outside of Florian's cafi. This meeting with a seeming beggar girl was to mean danger and an agonizing dilemma to the Marquis.