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Book Synopsis The Rape of Venice by : Dennis Wheatley
Download or read book The Rape of Venice written by Dennis Wheatley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Brook – 'wanted' for illegal duelling – sailed for Calcutta in the summer of 1796. With him went his lovely Clarissa. And in Calcutta Clarissa was abducted. Abducted by Rinaldo Malderini, a Venetian senator and a disciple of the Devil, an enemy as vicious and unscrupulous as any that Roger Brook had faced. Through shipwreck, capture by slavers, a desperate night attack on a walled city, Roger Brook seeks his revenge: and achieves it on entering Venice with Napoleon.
Book Synopsis The rape of Venice, Dennis Wheatley by : Dennis Wheatley
Download or read book The rape of Venice, Dennis Wheatley written by Dennis Wheatley and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rape of Venice. Frontispiece Portrait by Mark Gerson. Original Illustrations by Patrick Rixson by : Dennis Wheatley
Download or read book The Rape of Venice. Frontispiece Portrait by Mark Gerson. Original Illustrations by Patrick Rixson written by Dennis Wheatley and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scandal in Venice by : Amanda McCabe
Download or read book Scandal in Venice written by Amanda McCabe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available digitally for the first time from acclaimed author Amanda McCabe comes a classic Signet Regency Romance of a great love on the Grand Canal. In the wake of a horrible accident that killed the wretched man who was to be her husband, Lady Elizabeth Everdean has fled to Italy, where she vows to become a great artist—and to never let another man control her destiny. Sir Nicholas Hollingsworth is as renowned as a war hero as he is as a rake. When the man who saved his life in battle asks him to find his missing sister Elizabeth, he departs at once for Venice. Only he never expects the object of his search to become the object of his desire… “A lively, delicious Regency.” —Karen Harbaugh “Excitingly sensuous, yet darkly haunting.” —Romantic Times Don’t miss Amanda McCabe’s forthcoming Signet Regency Romances, The Spanish Bride, available April 2012, and Lady Rogue, available May 2012.
Book Synopsis The Rape of Europa by : Charles FitzRoy
Download or read book The Rape of Europa written by Charles FitzRoy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Rape of Europa' is one of Titian's great masterpieces, a work charged with eroticism and classical mystique behind which lies a tale as compelling as the painting itself. Here Charles FitzRoy weaves a unique account of its history and the painting's movement following the rise and fall of the countries in which it has been housed. The story ranges from its place at the court of King Philip II of Spain, through French revolution and English intrigue, to its final move to America, engineered by the brilliant but devious art historian Bernard Berenson. This is the tale of how Titian's masterpiece has captivated kings, nobles, artists, and lovers alike for over four centuries since its conception and continues to do so today.
Book Synopsis Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice by : Joanne M. Ferraro
Download or read book Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice written by Joanne M. Ferraro and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This captivating history exposes a clandestine world of family and community secrets—incest, abortion, and infanticide—in the early modern Venetian republic. With the keen eye of a detective, Joanne M. Ferraro follows the clues in individual cases from the criminal archives of Venice and reconstructs each one as the courts would have done according to the legal theory of the day. Lawmakers relied heavily on the depositions of family members, neighbors, and others in the community to establish the veracity of the victims’ claims. Ferraro recounts this often colorful testimony, giving voice to the field workers, spinners, grocers, servants, concubines, midwives, physicians, and apothecaries who gave their evidence to the courts, sometimes shaping the outcomes of the investigations. Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice also traces shifting attitudes toward illegitimacy and paternity from the late sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Both the Catholic Church and the Republic of Venice tried to enforce moral discipline and regulate sex and reproduction. Unmarried pregnant women were increasingly stigmatized for engaging in sex. Their claims for damages because of seduction or rape were largely unproven, and the priests and laymen they were involved with were often acquitted of any wrongdoing. The lack of institutional support for single motherhood and the exculpation of fathers frequently led to abortion, infant abandonment, or infant death. In uncovering these hidden sex crimes, Ferraro exposes the further abuse of women by both the men who perpetrated these illegal acts and the courts that prosecuted them.
Book Synopsis Venice by : Augustus John Cuthbert Hare
Download or read book Venice written by Augustus John Cuthbert Hare and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Venice written by Gustav Pauli and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Book Synopsis The Boundaries of Eros by : Guido Ruggiero
Download or read book The Boundaries of Eros written by Guido Ruggiero and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the records of several Venetian courts that dealt with sex crimes, Ruggiero traces the evolution of both licit and illicit sexuality during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, providing insight into Venetian society and, ultimately, the Renaissance itself.
Download or read book Virgins of Venice written by Mary Laven and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cambridge historian Laven has created a detailed and dramatic tapestry of resourceful, determined, often passionate women who managed to lead fulfilling lives despite their virtual imprisonment in Venice's 16th-century convents.
Book Synopsis The Works of John Ruskin: The stones of Venice, the fall and examples of the architecture of Venice by : John Ruskin
Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin: The stones of Venice, the fall and examples of the architecture of Venice written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1-35, works. Volume 36-37, letters. Volume 38 provides an extensive bibliography of Ruskin's writings and a catalogue of his drawings, with corrections to earlier volumes in George Allen's Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Volume 39, general index.
Book Synopsis The Ravishing of Lady Mary Ware by : Dennis Wheatley
Download or read book The Ravishing of Lady Mary Ware written by Dennis Wheatley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sep 1809 - 1 Jan 1813 In 1809 Roger Brook went to Lisbon and became involved in the Peninsular War. While there he first met Lady Mary Ware, with unexpected results for both of them. Later, events carried him to Copenhagen, St. Petersburg and Moscow, which had just been occupied by Napoleon. In Russia he again met Lady Mary and disguised her as his soldier servant. The description of their participation in Napoleon's terrible Retreat from Moscow in 1812 has rarely, if ever, been equalled.
Book Synopsis The Librettist of Venice by : Rodney Bolt
Download or read book The Librettist of Venice written by Rodney Bolt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1805, Lorenzo Da Ponte was the proprietor of a small grocery store in New York. But since his birth into an Italian Jewish family in 1749, he had already been a priest, a poet, the lover of many women, a scandalous Enlightenment thinker banned from teaching in Venice, the librettist for three of Mozart's most sublime operas, a collaborator with Salieri, a friend of Casanova, and a favorite of Emperor Joseph II. He would go on to establish New York City's first opera house and be the first professor of Italian at Columbia University. An inspired innovator but a hopeless businessman, who loved with wholehearted loyalty and recklessness, Da Ponte was one of the early immigrants to live out the American dream. In Rodney Bolt's rollicking and extensively researched biography, Da Ponte's picaresque life takes readers from Old World courts and the back streets of Venice, Vienna, and London to the New World promise of New York City. Two hundred and fifty years after Mozart's birth, the life and legacy of his librettist Da Ponte are as astonishing as ever.
Book Synopsis The Renaissance in Italian Art: The city triumphant [Venice by : Selwyn Brinton
Download or read book The Renaissance in Italian Art: The city triumphant [Venice written by Selwyn Brinton and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Venice written by Charles Yriarte and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Venice written by Joanne M. Ferraro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a sweeping historical portrait of the floating city of Venice from its foundations to the present day. Joanne M. Ferraro considers Venice's unique construction within an amphibious environment and identifies the Asian, European and North African exchange networks that made it a vibrant and ethnically diverse Mediterranean cultural centre. Incorporating recent scholarly insights, the author discusses key themes related to the city's social, cultural, religious and environmental history, as well as its politics and economy. A refuge and a pilgrim stop; an international emporium and centre of manufacture; a mecca of spectacle, theatre, music, gambling and sexual experimentation; and an artistic and architectural marvel, Venice's allure springs eternal in every phase of the city's fascinating history.
