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Author | : Nick Bantock |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1996-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811811408 |
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The newest novel by the acclaimed author/illustrator of the Griffin & Sabine trilogy is part love story, part mystery, and part ghostly tale--an altogether bewitching brew of sensualtiy and lost treasures. A young woman's obsession with a drawing of Shiva, the Hindu god, leads to a curious job offer: to find the few remaining pieces of a 15-th century adventurer's renowed collection of Indian sculptures. 90+ color illustrations.
Author | : Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1892 |
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Author | : Paul Strathern |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1639361251 |
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The Republic of Venice was the first great economic, cultural, and naval power of the modern Western world. After winning the struggle for ascendency in the late 13th century, the Republic enjoyed centuries of unprecedented glory and built a trading empire which at its apogee reached as far afield as China, Syria, and West Africa. This golden period only drew to an end with the Republic’s eventual surrender to Napoleon. The Venetians illuminates the character of the Republic during these illustrious years by shining a light on some of the most celebrated personalities of European history—Petrarch, Marco Polo, Galileo, Titian, Vivaldi, Casanova... Frequently, though, these emblems of the city found themselves at odds with the Venetian authorities, who prized stability above all else and were notoriously suspicious of any "cult of personality." Was this very tension perhaps the engine for the Republic’s unprecedented rise? Rich with biographies of some of the most exalted characters who have ever lived, The Venetians is a refreshing and authoritative new look at the history of the most evocative of city-states.
Author | : Mrs. Maxwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1892 |
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Release | : 1700* |
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Author | : Andrea Di Robilant |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2009-02-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1400095115 |
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In 1787, the beautiful Lucia is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when Venice falls to Bonaparte. We witness Lucia's painful series of miscarriages and the pressure on her to produce an heir; her impassioned affair with an Austrian officer; the glamour and strain of her career as a hostess in Vienna; and her amazing firsthand account of the defeat of Napoleon in 1814. With his brave and articulate heroine, Andrea di Robilant has once again reached across the centuries, and deep into his own past, to bring history to rich and vivid life on the page.
Author | : H. Hurlburt |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2016-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137037822 |
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This book focuses on the identity and public personae of the dogaressa, wives of the elected doges of medieval and early modern Venice. The study traces the evolution of the public functions of the group of quasi-royal wives, rare for their visibility, during Venice's development into a regional economic and political power.
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Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 1700 |
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Author | : Roberta Rich |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2012-02-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 145165748X |
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Not since Anna Diamant’s The Red Tent or Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book has a novel transported readers so intimately into the complex lives of women centuries ago or so richly into a story of intrigue that transcends the boundaries of history. A “lavishly detailed” (Elle Canada) debut that masterfully captures sixteenth-century Venice against a dramatic and poetic tale of suspense. Hannah Levi is renowned throughout Venice for her gift at coaxing reluctant babies from their mothers using her secret “birthing spoons.” When a count implores her to attend his dying wife and save their unborn son, she is torn. A Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, but his payment is enough to ransom her husband Isaac, who has been captured at sea. Can she refuse her duty to a woman who is suffering? Hannah’s choice entangles her in a treacherous family rivalry that endangers the child and threatens her voyage to Malta, where Isaac, believing her dead in the plague, is preparing to buy his passage to a new life. Told with exceptional skill, The Midwife of Venice brings to life a time and a place cloaked in fascination and mystery and introduces a captivating new talent in historical fiction.
Author | : Kathleen A. González |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788868690625 |
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