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Author : Thomas Donahue
Publisher : PerfectWave Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0983554196
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (835 download)
Download or read book Murder Under the Bridges of Venice written by Thomas Donahue and published by PerfectWave Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Suryanarayanan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469133687
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)
Download or read book Murder in Venice written by R. Suryanarayanan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder in Venice is the story of Sankaran Namboodri, a young man passionate about astronomy and related mathematics, whose thirst for knowledge inducts him to travel to Italy to meet Galileo Galilei and share the advanced astronomy developed by Hindu astronomers. Born in Irinjalakuda, a village in Kerala on the West coast of India also the birthplace of Madhava, a great mathematician born 250 years earlier, Sankaran prepares to take over from his father as the temple priest by studying the Vedic scriptures following the traditions. Recognising his talent for understanding complex scriptures and mathematics, and his insatiable curiosity of the sky, his father wants him to become an astronomer. To acquire further knowledge in astronomy, Sankaran plans a trip to Ujjain, the seat of great discoveries in Hindu astronomy. On his way, at the city of Kozhikode, by a strange coincidence he meets a renowned scholar, Ananthan, who has just returned from Ujjain with the latest teachings. Ananthan transfers all his knowledge to Sankaran and with the help of an Italian Catholic missionary, convinces Sankaran that he should go to Italy so that the contributions of Hindu astronomers may be known to Galileo Galilee. Sankaran accepts the challenge. The Italian maestro is not only surprised by Sankarans knowledge of astronomical predictive calculations and citations from ancient Vedic scriptures and but even more amazed that Hindu astronomers had conceptualised a heliocentric universe long before. The Auhtorities of Rome firmly believe that the earth is fixed with the Sun going round and oppose vehemently Galileos views. A messenger from Rome warns Galileo that his life as well as that of Sankaran is in danger as his views are being lately labeled as blasphematory by the Authorities. Galileo sends Sankaran away to hide in Venice convinced that in a matter of weeks, and with the help of Sankarans knowledge, he will be able to alter the opinion of the Authorities of Rome. But will he succeed? Will the world come to know about Sankarans mission? The reader will get an insight on the contribution of Hindu Astronomy often forgotten as we celebrate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the telescope by Galileo.
Author : Edward Sklepowich
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150400132X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Black Bridge written by Edward Sklepowich and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urbino Macintyre fights to protect the safety of his closest friend Centuries ago, Venice celebrated the Day of All Souls by building a bridge of boats across the canal to the cemetery island of San Michele. As the tourist season winds down, the Contessa da Capo-Zendrini decides it’s time to revive the tradition, organizing a fleet so the city can mourn once more as it did in ancient times. Her plans are upended, however, when her latest fascination, a rakish playwright named Bobo, begins receiving anonymous threats. She begs her friend, the amateur sleuth Urbino Macintyre, to find out who has been sending the letters, a thankless chore that becomes rather more interesting when Bobo is implicated in a grisly murder. As the day of the contessa’s black bridge draws closer, Macintyre scrambles to discover the true killer and keep his friend safe. If he doesn’t act quickly, the contessa’s journey to the cemetery may be a one-way trip.
Author : D. M. G. Sutherland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521883040
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Murder in Aubagne written by D. M. G. Sutherland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of faction, lynching, murder, terror and counter-terror during the French Revolution. It examines factionalism in small towns like Aubagne near Marseille, and how this produced the murders and prison massacres of 1795-8. Another major theme is the convergence of lynching from below with official Terror from above. Although the Terror may have been designed to solve a national emergency in the spring of 1793, in southern France it permitted one faction to continue a struggle against its enemies, a struggle that had begun earlier over local issues like taxation and governance. It uses the techniques of micro-history to tell the story of the small town of Aubagne. It then extends the scope to places nearby like Marseille, Arles, and Aix-en-Provence. Along the way, it illuminates familiar topics like the activity of Clubs and revolutionary tribunals and then explores largely unexamined areas like lynching, the sociology of faction, the emergence of theories of violent fraternal democracy, and the nature of the White Terror.
Author : Robert Charles Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195084047
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The War of the Fists written by Robert Charles Davis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The War of the Fists" is a study of 17th-century worker culture in the city of Venice, focusing on the mock battles, or "battagliole", which the town's two popular factions waged on public bridges. Their importance in the city's plebeian life makes bridge battles an extremely valuable point of entry for exploring structures of Venetian popular culture, a task which Robert Davis attempts at several levels.
Author : O'Reilly Morry
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462880193
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Art and Murder written by O'Reilly Morry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and Murder is a collection of short stories and novellas, many with interactive features, such as the opportunity to write your own ending and submit in a contest. Some Art, some history, some murder merge in these quite unusual stories. Teenage girls murdered for no apparent reason, one in the hallway of her school, people visiting museums, murdered, a presidential candidates wife disappears, greed sends people on a strange quest through Europe following clues to a great treasure, will they all survive? These are just some of the cases FBI agent and criminal profiler Claudia Cochran and her 3 friends from Interpol must try to solve. They wont end as you expect.
Author : A. C. Baantjer
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781890768577
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (685 download)
Download or read book Murder in Amsterdam written by A. C. Baantjer and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The two novellas make an irresistible case for the popularity of the Dutch author' - The New York Times Book Review 'DeKok is a careful, compassionate police-man in the tradition of Maigret' - Library Journal A veteran of the Amsterdam Municipal Police Department (Homicide), Baantjer has been hailed in his homeland as the 'Dutch Conan Doyle'. This first translation of these two classic novellas into English is a testament to that reputation.
Author : Edward Sklepowich
Publisher : O. Penzler Books
ISBN 13 : 9781883402846
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Black Bridge written by Edward Sklepowich and published by O. Penzler Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Venice, American writer Urbino Macintyre is asked by Countess Capo-Zendrini to investigate threats against the playwright, Baron Casarotto-Re, her new beau. Fighting jealousy, Macintyre agrees to look into it and discovers a plot to despoil the countess of her wealth. By the author of Liquid Desires.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Death in Venice written by Thomas Mann and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Death in Venice" by Thomas Mann (translated by Kenneth Burke). Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Christine Evelyn Volker
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1631523112
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Venetian Blood written by Christine Evelyn Volker and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murderous intrigue in an unforgettable setting. “. . . [A] pleasure trip that quickly devolves into a nightmare . . . ” —AudioFile Magazine “A riveting whodunit . . . ” —Kirkus Reviews A money launderer. A seduction. An old rivalry. Murders. Fighting to forget a crumbling marriage, Anna, a US Treasury officer, comes to Venice on vacation. A choice she soon regrets. Blackmailed by a money-laundering count, Anna demands he return explicit photos taken during their affair. He refuses. Tracking him to a hotel gala blows up when he is murdered and a dogged police detective accuses Anna of the crime. Anna draws upon her talents in math and science to attack the intricate puzzle of finding the killer among many suspects. They stymie her efforts by hiding secrets and spinning lies in a city built on illusions. Whom can she trust? Pursued, gripped by terror, barely dodging death’s dark embrace, Anna struggles to clear her name before police can destroy her alibi and lock her up. But then, as attempts on her life mount, she just might be safer in prison. . . . Readers of psychological mystery will enjoy this story of a brainy heroine battling daunting odds.
Author : Patricia Fortini Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192894579
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Venetian Bride written by Patricia Fortini Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of vendetta and intrigue, triumph and tragedy, exile and repatriation, this book recounts the interwoven microhistories of Count Girolamo Della Torre, a feudal lord with a castle and other properties in the Friuli, and Giulia Bembo, grand-niece of Cardinal Pietro Bembo and daughter of Gian Matteo Bembo, a powerful Venetian senator with a distinguished career in service to the Venetian Republic. Their marriage in the mid-sixteenth century might be regarded as emblematic of the Venetian experience, with the metropole at the center of a fragmented empire: a Terraferma nobleman and the daughter of a Venetian senator, who raised their family in far off Crete in the stato da mar, in Venice itself, and in the Friuli and the Veneto in the stato da terra. The fortunes and misfortunes of the nine surviving Della Torre children and their descendants, tracked through the end of the Republic in 1797, are likewise emblematic of a change in feudal culture from clan solidarity to individualism and intrafamily strife, and ultimately, redemption. Despite the efforts by both the Della Torre and the Bembo families to preserve the patrimony through a succession of male heirs, the last survivor in the paternal bloodline of each was a daughter. This epic tale highlights the role of women in creating family networks and opens a precious window into a contentious period in which Venetian republican values clash with the deeply rooted feudal traditions of honor and blood feuds of the mainland.
Author : R. J. B. Bosworth
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300210116
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Italian Venice written by R. J. B. Bosworth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice—not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle époque and the dark underbelly of modernization, the two world wars, and the far-reaching oppressions of the fascist regime, through to the “Disneylandification” of Venice and the tourist boom, the worldwide attention of the biennale and film festival, and current threats of subsidence and flooding posed by global warming. He draws out major themes—the increasingly anachronistic but deeply embedded Catholic Church, the two faces of modernization, consumerism versus culture. Bosworth interrogates not just Venice’s history but its meanings, and how the city’s past has been co-opted to suit present and sometimes ulterior aims. Venice, he shows, is a city where its histories as well as its waters ripple on the surface.
Author : David Barnes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317317491
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Venice Myth written by David Barnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venice holds a unique place in literary and cultural history. Barnes looks at the themes of war, occupation, resistance and fascism to see how the political background has affected the literary works that have come out of this great city. He focuses on key British and American writers, including Byron, Ruskin, Pound and Eliot.
Author : Jane Langton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453247645
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Thief of Venice written by Jane Langton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her usual “sparkling prose and inimitable wit,” the award-wining author follows her scholar/sleuth and his wife as they investigate a death in Venice (Publishers Weekly). Four-month summer holidays, spring break, and regular sabbaticals mean that Harvard professors Mary and Homer Kelly never have trouble finding time to vacation. Unfortunately, Homer’s sideline as an amateur sleuth means that they rarely get to relax during their time off. And so, when Homer begs Mary to let them visit Venice to attend a conference in the famed rare book library of Cardinal Bessarion, Mary agrees on condition that Homer avoid any dead bodies. When they arrive in Venice, it is Mary, not Homer, who stumbles upon a murder. An intent sightseer, she combs the city with her camera, snapping pictures of anything that catches her eye. But when one of her snapshots captures something it shouldn’t, Mary is sucked into a decades-old mystery that stretches back to the darkest moments of World War II.
Author : Bonnie Hoover Braendlin
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1634138732
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Love and Death in Venice written by Bonnie Hoover Braendlin and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summer in Venice seemed like a great idea to visiting professors Ariadne Caulfield and Judith Sheridan. While they are recovering from romantic losses, new loves enter their lives. Judith meets Suzanne Hanks and Ariadne falls for a wealthy art dealer. But then . . .
Author : Margaret Plant
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300083866
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (838 download)
Download or read book Venice written by Margaret Plant and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Plant presents a wide-ranging cultural history of the city from the fall of the Republic in 1797, until 1997, showing how it has changed and adapted and how perceptions of it have shaped its reality.
