Don Andrea Pasquini was born on November 30, 1800 near Livorno, Tuscany—Craven's own will gives him the style 'Don,' marking him as a man of gentle birth.  The son of a merchant who probably owned land, Andrea loved the countryside.  Shooting was his primary passion.  Animal husbandry was a close second, and he had multiple other talents apropos to an estate—repairing things, managing servants, etc.—so whatever his upbringing, he was made for country life.

Andrea’s mother was a Perlingieri, a respectable family with origins in Benevento.  He had at least one full sibling, a younger sister named Giovanna, and by the evidence in Craven’s journal, a younger half-brother, Don Luigi Macri.  Apparently Andrea had a good education.  He spoke French fluently.  He had perfect penmanship.  At some point he’d been involved with a respectable woman whose identity Craven never records; their son, at first entered in the journal as “Carluccio Andreas” (suggesting that the mother’s surname couldn’t be mentioned for fear of harming her reputation) seems to have been born in roughly 1825.

One imagines Andrea came to Naples that year, shortly before Craven met him; his mother and sister resided there, while Andrea’s father did not, having gone into bankruptcy there in 1821.  The younger Pasquini didn’t get along with the elder.  Craven mentions the father only briefly in the journal, and this during the week of Don Francesco’s death.

Craven did not pursue Andrea.  It was Mary who procured him.  The name of Pasquini enters the record abruptly—with a threesome—and only afterwards does Craven begin to mention him.  He was not smitten at first with the sportsman.  Over time, however, the relationship deepened, until Andrea was among the most loyal, the most devoted, in Craven’s life. 

When circumstances threatened to tear them apart, Craven made Andrea his secretary.  Eventually, the Tuscan managed everything for him.  Andrea was indispensable, not only to Craven, but to Mary as well, and although he could be stubborn, hot-headed, even sometimes deceptive, Andrea was an integral part of their Naples family.  He was terribly handsome.  He was inordinately shy, good-natured, patient.

And in love with both Mary and Keppel Craven.