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A Venetian Affair

Author : Andrea Di Robilant
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9781841155425
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book A Venetian Affair written by Andrea Di Robilant and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the attic of their old family palazzo on the Grand Canal, Andrea di Robilant's father had found the love letters of their ancestor Andrea Memmo, one of the last great Venetian statesmen, to a beautiful half-English girl named Giustiniana Wynne. Some of the letters were written in code, which di Robilant and his father cracked to reveal an illicit passion: Giustiniana was not of the elite ruling class and would never have been considered a suitable match for Andrea. But their acts of devotion were startlingly brazen. As their courtship unfolds, they plot elaborate marriage schemes that offend everyone, arrange secret trysts in borrowed rooms, cause trouble for the servants who must ferry their forbidden correspondence, and even weather an unwanted pregnancy, from which Giustiniana, with her wits and ingenuity and some crucial assistance from the infamous Casanova, emerges unscathed.

Autumn in Venice

Author : Andrea Di Robilant
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101970383
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Autumn in Venice written by Andrea Di Robilant and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illuminating story of writer and muse—which also examines the cost to a young woman of her association with a larger-than-life literary celebrity—Autumn in Venice is an intimate look at Hemingway’s final years. In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called “absolutely god-damned wonderful.” A year shy of his fiftieth birthday, Hemingway hadn’t published a novel in nearly a decade when he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich, a striking Venetian girl just out of finishing school. Here Andrea di Robilant re-creates with sparkling clarity this surprising, years-long relationship, during which Adriana inspired a man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work. Hemingway used Adriana as the model for Renata in Across the River and into the Trees, and continued to visit Venice to see her; when the Ivanciches traveled to Cuba, Adriana was there as he wrote The Old Man and the Sea.

A Venetian Affair

Author : Catherine George
Publisher : Mills & Boon
ISBN 13 : 9780263880977
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book A Venetian Affair written by Catherine George and published by Mills & Boon. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The jewel of Italy is the perfect place to fall in love! A Venetian Passion Catherine George A trip to Venice was just the change of scenery Laura needed. But she hadnt expected a week-long sensual seduction at the hands of handsome Italian Domenico. Or that Domenico could be harbouring a secret that could rock her world! In the Venetians Bed Susan Stephens Arrogant and ruthless, Luca is the kind of man Nell hates most. Although helpless to resist his raw sexuality, she can never forgive his coldness years ago. Until they meet again as two masked strangers in Venice on carnival night A Family For Keeps Lucy Gordon When Julias daughter was taken from her, the bottom fell out of her world. But meeting and falling in love with Vincenzo has given her a new start. Then Vincenzo discovers that the child Julia is searching for is the child he was bringing up as his own

Lucia

Author : Andrea Di Robilant
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400095115
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucia written by Andrea Di Robilant and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Venetian Passion

Author : Catherine George
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1426859287
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book A Venetian Passion written by Catherine George and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance: Sipping wine in the dramatic Piazza San Marco in Venice was just the change of scenery Laura Green needed. What she hadn't expected was for a handsome Italian, Domenico Chiesa, to seduce her! Passion: It turned out to be a week's vacation spent being wined and dined in the most exclusive restaurants; a week of sizzling sexual tension which neither Laura nor Domenico wanted to end.... Betrayal: But, despite their passions, Domenico had kept something extremely important from Laura. A secret that, once she was home in England, would have startling repercussions....

The Venetian Affair

Author : Helen Macinnes
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1781164444
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book The Venetian Affair written by Helen Macinnes and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the 1960s during the Cold War, this is a captivating espionage adventure from “the queen of spy writers” who has been compared to Graham Greene and Ian Fleming (Sunday Express). While on assignment in Paris and Venice, an American journalist works desperately to expose Communist espionage activities . . . Fenner burned Rosenfeld’s message, reminding himself wryly that he was behaving in the very best tradition. This was a game not too difficult to learn, he thought. A game? A game in deadly earnest. A vacation in Venice that was grim business. A girl constantly beside him who wasn’t his. How the hell had he walked into this upside-down world? Where, he wondered suddenly, would Venice lead?

Venetian Dreaming

Author : Paula Weideger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439122334
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Venetian Dreaming written by Paula Weideger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who hasn't longed to escape to the enchanting canals and mysterious alleyways of Venice? Globetrotting writer Paula Weideger not only dreamed the dream, she took the leap. In Venetian Dreaming, she charts the course of her love affair with one of the world's most treasured cities. Weideger's search for a place to live eventually takes her to the Palazzo Donà dalle Rose, one of the rare Venetian palaces continuously inhabited by the family that built it. She weaves the past lives of the family Donà with her own adventures as she threads her way through the labyrinthine city. Art and architecture are a constant presence. Yet even more strongly felt is the passage of time, the panorama of the seasons as reflected in special events -- Carnival, the Film Festival, September's historic regatta, midnight mass at San Marco. We follow Weideger as she explores the Ghetto, the expatriate community, and the lives of locals from noblemen to boatmen. Along the way she encounters everyone from the ghost of Peggy Guggenheim to the Merchant Ivory crowd, and experiences some high drama with the Contessa, her landlady. The resulting memoir is a wry and illuminating, intelligent and tender account of the once grand heritage and now imperiled future of Venice.

Venetian Navigators

Author : Andrea Di Robilant
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571243785
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Venetian Navigators written by Andrea Di Robilant and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published simultaneously in New York by Alfred A. Knopf under title: Irresistible north: from Venice to Greenland on the trail of the Zen brothers.

The Venetian Boy

Author : Michael Willhoite
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781456521547
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Venetian Boy written by Michael Willhoite and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unhappy Mark Ravenshaw lives with his parents and still smarts from a disastrous love affair. But he finds reprieve in an offer to work in Venice for his Uncle Jem, a respected art and antiquities dealer. Mark falls instantly under the city's spell, but is tormented by desire for Uncle Jem's young assistant, Piero ... who also shares Jem's bed. Mark soon finds himself obsessed by the amoral, beautiful Piero. Not even a sexual entanglement with Bruno, a former lover of Uncle Jem's, can assuage his longing. Unfortunately his beloved uncle stands in the path of Mark's desire. But for how long?

The Venetian Contract

Author : Marina Fiorato
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848545665
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book The Venetian Contract written by Marina Fiorato and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like her bestselling THE GLASSBLOWER OF MURANO, Marina Fiorato's fifth unforgettable historical love story is set in Venice. For fans of Philippa Gregory, Sarah Dunant and Alison Weir. 1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with bubonic plague - and the Turkish Sultan has his revenge. But the ship also holds a secret stowaway - Feyra, a young and beautiful harem doctor fleeing a future as the Sultan's concubine. Only her wits and medical knowledge keep her alive as the plague ravages Venice. In despair the Doge commissions the architect Andrea Palladio to build the greatest church of his career - an offering to God so magnificent that Venice will be saved. But Palladio's own life is in danger too, and it will require all skills of medico Annibale Cason, the city's finest plague doctor, to keep him alive. But what Annibale had not counted on was meeting Feyra, who is now under Palladio's protection, a woman who can not only match his medical skills but can also teach him how to care.

Venice Observed

Author : Mary McCarthy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156935210
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Venice Observed written by Mary McCarthy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1963 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating work of reportage on Venice. "Searching observations and astonishing comprehension of the Venetian taste and character" (New York Herald Tribune).

Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair

Author : John Bossy
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300094510
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (945 download)

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Download or read book Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair written by John Bossy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells a true detective story set mainly in Elizabethan London during the years of cold war just before the Armada of 1588. The mystery is the identity of a spy working in a foreign embassy to frustrate Catholic conspiracy and propaganda aimed at the overthrow of Queen Elizabeth and her government. The suspects in the case are the inmates of the house, an old building in the warren of streets and gardens between Fleet Street and the Thames. These include the ambassador, a civilized Frenchman, his wife, his daughter, his secretary, his clerk and his priest, the tutor, the chef, the butler, and the concierge. They also include a runaway friar, the Neapolitan philosopher, poet, and comedian Giordano Bruno, who wrote masterpieces of Italian literature, who was later burned in Rome for his anti-papal opinions, and who has been revered in Italy for his honorable and heroic resistance to papal authority. Others in the cast are Queen Elizabeth, her formidable secretary of state Sir Francis Walsingham, and King Henry III of France; poets, courtiers, and scholars; statesmen, conspirators, go-betweens, and stool-pigeons. When not in London, the action takes place in Paris and Oxford; a good deal of it happens on the river Thames. The hero or villain, who calls himself Fagot, does his work most effectively, is not found out, and disappears. In the first part of the book these events are narrated. In the second the spy is identified and his story put together. John Bossy's brilliant research, backed by his forensic and literary skills, solves a centuries-old mystery. His book makes a major contribution to the political and intellectual history of the wars of religion in Europe and to the domestic history of Elizabethan England. Not least, it is compelling reading.

Monteverdi's Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy

Author : Ellen Rosand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520933279
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (332 download)

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Download or read book Monteverdi's Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy written by Ellen Rosand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first important composer of opera. This innovative study by one of the foremost experts on Monteverdi and seventeenth-century opera examines the composer's celebrated final works—Il ritorno d'Ulisse (1640) and L'incoronazione di Poppea (1642)—from a new perspective. Ellen Rosand considers these works as not merely a pair but constituents of a trio, a Venetian trilogy that, Rosand argues, properly includes a third opera, Le nozze d'Enea (1641). Although its music has not survived, its chronological placement between the other two operas opens new prospects for better understanding all three, both in their specifically Venetian context and as the creations of an old master. A thorough review of manuscript and printed sources of Ritorno and Poppea, in conjunction with those of their erstwhile silent companion, offers new possibilities for resolving the questions of authenticity that have swirled around Monteverdi's last operas since their discovery in the late nineteenth century. Le nozze d'Enea also helps to explain the striking differences between the other two, casting new light on their contrasting moral ethos: the conflict between a world of emotional propriety and restraint and one of hedonistic abandon.

Chasing the Rose

Author : Andrea di Robilant
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743316003
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Chasing the Rose written by Andrea di Robilant and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating and delightful tale of Andrea di Robilant's search for a fabled antique rose - a story that takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte and into some of the most outstanding rose gardens of Europe.

Loredana

Author : Lauro Martines
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312347512
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Loredana written by Lauro Martines and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Conjuring up the voices of the lovers and of their age through a rich array of letters, confessions, secret-police proceedings, a diary, and a family chronicle, this is a tale of politics, love, lust, and religious incandescence."--BOOK JACKET.

Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories

Author : Joan Silber
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393070727
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories written by Joan Silber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005-05-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the National Book Award: "Joan Silber writes with wisdom, humor, grace, and wry intelligence. Her characters bear welcome news of how we will survive."—Andrea Barrett Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stories are about longings—often held for years—and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort. Though the stories stand alone, a minor element in one becomes major in the next. In "My Shape", a woman is taunted by her dance coach, who later suffers his own heartache. A Venetian poet of the 1500s, another storyteller, is introduced to a modern traveler reading Rilke. His story precedes a mesmerizing narrative of missionaries in China. In the final story, Giles, born to a priesthood family, leans toward Buddhism after a grievous loss, and in time falls in love with the dancer of the first story. So deft and subtle is Joan Silber with these various perspectives that we come full circle surprised and enchanted by her myriad worlds. National Book Award finalist. Reading group guide included.

POLPO

Author : Russell Norman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608199096
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book POLPO written by Russell Norman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sophisticated collection of 120 lesser-known Venetian specialties from London's edgy Soho district restaurant is complemented by sumptuous photography and includes such option as warm duck salad with beets and walnuts, crispy baby pizzas with zucchini and warm autumn fruits with amaretto cream. 25,000 first printing.