The Aspern Papers - Tapa blanda

The Aspern Papers by Henry James tells the story of A nameless narrator who goes to Venice to find Juliana Bordereau, an old lover of Jeffrey Aspern, a famous deceased American poet. The narrator presents himself to the old woman as a potential lodger and is prepared to date her niece Miss Tita (renamed Miss Tina in later editions), a plain and naive spinster, in the hopes of getting a look at some of Aspern's letters and other papers kept by Juliana.