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Author | : Edward Sklepowich |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2015-01-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1504001370 |
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Investigating a killing, Macintyre finds it to be a family affair As snow falls on Venice, turning the city into an elaborate gothic confection, Gaby Pindar fears for her life. Crippled by intense agoraphobia, she hasn’t left her family home in two decades, instead dedicating herself to tending to the small collection of historical trinkets that make up the family museum. When she begins receiving death threats, she begs for help from her cousin, the Contessa da Capo-Zendrini, whose friend Urbino Macintyre is something of an amateur sleuth. But the search takes a gruesome turn when Gaby’s sister, Olimpia, turns up dead. The contessa finds Olimpia murdered in her home, the maid kneeling above her with a bloody pair of scissors. Convinced of the maid’s innocence, Macintyre digs into the Pindar family history, discovering centuries’ worth of intrigue that have finally erupted in blood.
Author | : Edward Sklepowich |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
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ISBN | : 9781322437125 |
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Investigating a killing, Macintyre finds it to be a family affair As snow falls on Venice, turning the city into an elaborate gothic confection, Gaby Pindar fears for her life. Crippled by intense agoraphobia, she hasn{u2019}t left her family home in two decades, instead dedicating herself to tending to the small collection of historical trinkets that make up the family museum. When she begins receiving death threats, she begs for help from her cousin, the Contessa da Capo-Zendrini, whose friend Urbino Macintyre is something of an amateur sleuth. But the search takes a gruesome turn when Gaby{u2019}s sister, Olimpia, turns up dead. The contessa finds Olimpia murdered in her home, the maid kneeling above her with a bloody pair of scissors. Convinced of the maid{u2019}s innocence, Macintyre digs into the Pindar family history, discovering centuries{u2019} worth of intrigue that have finally erupted in blood.
Author | : Edward Sklepowich |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2015-01-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 150400129X |
Download Death in a Serene City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An American writer searches for a kidnapped Venetian saint In a remote Venice church, a dead woman named Santa Teodora lies before the altar. She has been there for centuries, ever since the Crusaders carried her mummified body away from the Holy Land, and she is as much a part of this mysterious city as the Grand Canal itself. Urbino Macintyre, an American expatriate who makes a living writing biographies of legendary Venetians, believes he knows every detail of Teodora’s legend, but another chapter is about to be added to her myth. Twenty years after a flood ravaged the city, Santa Teodora has vanished from the church. Macintyre’s nose for history leads him to investigate the case, which he suspects might be related to the demises of two local women. Death can no longer touch the saint, but it may be waiting for Urbino Macintyre.
Author | : Robert Burgin |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 605 |
Release | : 2013-01-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 161069385X |
Download Going Places Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.
Author | : Luca Molà |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2003-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801876559 |
Download The Silk Industry of Renaissance Venice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How 16th century Venetian silk manufacturers met the challenge of demand for lighter and cheaper fabric. The manufacture of luxury textiles, such as silk, was central to an Italian Renaissance economy based on status and conspicuous consumption. From the rapidly changing fashions that drove demand to the jobs created for craftsmen, weavers, and merchants, the wealth and prestige associated with silk throughout Europe made it Italy's leading export industry. In this important book, Luca Molà examines the silk industry in Renaissance Venice amid changing markets, suppliers, producers, and government regulations. Drawing on archival research and a vast amount of European scholarship, Molà documents the innovations Venetians made in manufacturing and marketing to spur the silk industry. He uncovers the alliance between manufacturers and government to promote the industry in a changing international economic environment. Through flexible laws, quality was regulated to meet the varying requirements of an increasing range of customers. Molà also analyzes state policy that favored the development and organization of silk producers throughout the Terraferma. His findings contribute in an important way to the ongoing scholarly assessment of Venice's place in the economy of the Renaissance and the Mediterranean world.
Author | : James H. Johnson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2017-01-10 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 0520294653 |
Download Venice Incognito Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The entire town is disguised," declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks—nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men—could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun donned a mask and male attire for her liaison with the libertine Casanova. In Venice Incognito, James H. Johnson offers a spirited analysis of masking in this carnival-loving city. He draws on a wealth of material to explore the world view of maskers, both during and outside of carnival, and reconstructs their logic: covering the face in public was a uniquely Venetian response to one of the most rigid class hierarchies in European history. This vivid account goes beyond common views that masking was about forgetting the past and minding the muse of pleasure to offer fresh insight into the historical construction of identity.
Author | : Jutta Gisela Sperling |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226769364 |
Download Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In late sixteenth-century Venice, nearly 60 percent of all patrician women joined convents, and only a minority of these women did so voluntarily. In trying to explain why unprecedented numbers of patrician women did not marry, historians have claimed that dowries became too expensive. However, Jutta Gisela Sperling debunks this myth and argues that the rise of forced vocations happened within the context of aristocratic culture and society. Sperling explains how women were not allowed to marry beneath their social status while men could, especially if their brides were wealthy. Faced with a shortage of suitable partners, patrician women were forced to offer themselves as "a gift not only to God, but to their fatherland," as Patriarch Giovanni Tiepolo told the Senate of Venice in 1619. Noting the declining birth rate among patrician women, Sperling explores the paradox of a marriage system that preserved the nobility at the price of its physical extinction. And on a more individual level, she tells the fascinating stories of these women. Some became scholars or advocates of women's rights, some took lovers, and others escaped only to survive as servants, prostitutes, or thieves.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Jews |
ISBN | : |
Download The Merchant of Venice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The merchant of Venice. 1888 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1888 |
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Download A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The merchant of Venice. 10th ed. 1888 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle