Her biographer mentions a boyfriend in her early days in Rome, a young painter named Woody Bassett
. After him the Italian-American Dario Ambrosiani
, was her escort for some years,
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
328, 332-3, 357-62
and...
Dedications
Muriel Spark
As a book it makes barely a hundred pages in largish type. Macmillan
's London edition followed in September, with a slightly reduced print-run of 15,000. The dedication to Dario Ambrosiani
on its first appearance...