The Venetian Bride

Author : Patricia Fortini Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192647351

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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 : Magdalen King-Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:gb54001802

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Author : Patricia Fortini Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192894571

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The Venetian Bride by Patricia Fortini Brown Pdf

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 : Lucy Gordon,Mao Karino
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596682321

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The Venetian Playboy's Bride by Lucy Gordon,Mao Karino Pdf

Private eye Darcy Maddox has been hired to investigate Federico Lucci, who’s under suspicion of embezzlement. She arrives in Venice and finds “Federico,” but the man she’s found is actually Guido posing as his friend. Darcy has no interest in a relationship, but, in order to investigate “Federico,” she spends time with him. Soon they both feel their relationship starting to grow, but both feel guilty for keeping their true identity hidden. How long can they wear the masks that hide their true faces? And how will they react when the truth is laid bare?

Author : Lucy Gordon
Publisher : Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Romanc
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
ISBN : 0373037449

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The Venetian Playboy's Bride by Lucy Gordon Pdf

The Venetian Playboy's Bride by Lucy Gordon released on Mar 25, 2003 is available now for purchase.

Author : David Alan Brown,Sylvia Ferino-Pagden,Jaynie Anderson,Deborah Howard,Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienne).,National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Kunsthistorisches Museum (Wenen)
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300116772

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Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting by David Alan Brown,Sylvia Ferino-Pagden,Jaynie Anderson,Deborah Howard,Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienne).,National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Kunsthistorisches Museum (Wenen) Pdf

Presents a survey of sixty Venetian Renaissance paintings of the calibre of Bellini and Titian's "Feast of the Gods" in Washington and Giorgione's "Laura and Three Philosophers" in Vienna.

Author : Cathy Williams,Melanie Milburne,Kate Hewitt
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781038902443

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Irresistible Italians by Cathy Williams,Melanie Milburne,Kate Hewitt Pdf

The Venetian One-Night Baby - Melanie Milburne It was a sizzling encounter…then a baby binds them forever! A hotel booking mix-up in Venice means wedding dress designer Sabrina Midhurst must share a room with her nemesis: wealthy, brooding businessman Max Firbank. It’s infuriating —- until an unexpected night of passion awakens a need Sabrina didn’t even know was possible! They’ve always battled their super-charged attraction, so when Sabrina confesses she’s pregnant, she’s stunned by Max’s demand: that she wear his ring! The Bride’s Awakening - Kate Hewitt He’s going to teach her how to be a woman! Vittorio Ralfino, the Count of Cazlevara, is back in Italy to find a traditional wife. Anamaria Viale, a good local girl, loyal and scandal-free, is perfect. Anamaria’s stunned that her teenage crush is proposing to her…an ugly duckling! Tall, voluptuous and awkward, she’s stoically resigned herself to singledom. But Vittorio is persuasive — and passionate! He offered marriage as a business proposition — but very soon unlocks a deep, powerful need in Ana’s untouched body that only he can sate… The Truth Behind His Touch - Cathy Williams Women always jump at the click of his fingers…don’t they? Hot and flustered from the sweltering Milan heat Caroline Rossi steps into the sleek offices of Giancarlo De Vita — only to feel plump, plain…and virtually invisible! Giancarlo’s ruthless ambition got him where he is today, but he’s never forgotten the hardships he overcame — or his thirst for a revenge only Caroline can help him enact. Used to women doing anything to please him, Giancarlo is confounded by Caroline — she just won’t play ball. To seek his vengeance, Giancarlo will have to turn on the legendarily irresistible de Vito charm…

Author : Patricia H. Labalme
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000944839

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Saints, Women and Humanists in Renaissance Venice by Patricia H. Labalme Pdf

This volume brings together the published academic essays of the Renaissance historian Patricia Hochschild Labalme (1927-2002). Appearing between 1955 and 1999, they deal with the intellectual, social and religious life of Venice in the 15th-16th centuries. An important focus is the exploration of the careers, milieu and writings of cultural and literary women of early modern Venice, a field to which the author made a particular contribution.

Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780571247882

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Venice by Jan Morris Pdf

Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully written immersion in Venetian life and character, set against the background of the city's past. Analysing the particular temperament of Venetians, as well as its waterways, its architecture, its bridges, its tourists, its curiosities, its smells, sounds, lights and colours, there is scarcely a corner of Venice that Jan Morris has not investigated and brought vividly to life. Jan Morris first visited the city of Venice as young James Morris, during World War II. As she writes in the introduction, 'it is Venice seen through a particular pair of eyes at a particular moment - young eyes at that, responsive above all to the stimuli of youth.' Venice is an impassioned work on this magnificent but often maddening city. Jan Morris's collection of travel writing and reportage spans over five decades and includes such titles as Sydney, Coronation Everest, Hong Kong, Spain and Manhattan '45. Since its first publication, Venice has appeared in many editions, won the W.H. Heinemann award and become an international bestseller. 'The best book about Venice ever written' Sunday Times 'No sensible visitor should visit the place without it . . . Venice stands alone as the essential introduction, and as a work of literature in its own right.' Observer

Author : Lucy Gordon
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781426818097

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The Italian's Cinderella Bride by Lucy Gordon Pdf

In a flash of lightning, Count Pietro Bagnelli sees a young woman standing outside his palazzo, a battered suitcase at her feet. This solitary count has turned his back on the world, but he can't turn his back on this bedraggled waif…. Ruth has returned to Venice to uncover lost memories, yet finds comfort with this proudly damaged count. As Carnivale sweeps through the city, drama and passion ignite and secrets unravel….

Author : Lucy Monroe / SUSAN STEPHENS,Nasuno Amano
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596268594

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THE SHEIKH'S BARTERED BRIDE / THE VENETIAN`S DEFIANT WOMAN by Lucy Monroe / SUSAN STEPHENS,Nasuno Amano Pdf

【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】Catherine has a chance meeting with Hakim, an heir to the throne of Jawar, at the library where she works. He seems just like a prince out of a fairy tale… She falls for him with one glance, and the two begin a passionate romance. One day, he proposes to her out of the blue. Catherine is thrilled…until she learns that it was all just an elaborate ploy. He then whisks her away to the burning sands of the desert! Catherine doesn’t know what Hakim’s motives are, just that she seems to be trapped far from home… What is he trying to do? This volume also features the story about a love affair between Charlie, an art conservator, and Orlando, the strong-willed Venetian man who hires her to consult on a painting he’s recently acquired.

Author : Thomas Roscoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Folklore
ISBN : HARVARD:32044079324380

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Legends of Venice by Thomas Roscoe Pdf

Author : Lucy Monroe / SUSAN STEPHENS,Nasuno Amano
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9784596267894

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THE SHEIKH'S BARTERED BRIDE / THE VENETIAN`S DEFIANT WOMAN by Lucy Monroe / SUSAN STEPHENS,Nasuno Amano Pdf

【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】Catherine has a chance meeting with Hakim, an heir to the throne of Jawar, at the library where she works. He seems just like a prince out of a fairy tale… She falls for him with one glance, and the two begin a passionate romance. One day, he proposes to her out of the blue. Catherine is thrilled…until she learns that it was all just an elaborate ploy. He then whisks her away to the burning sands of the desert! Catherine doesn’t know what Hakim’s motives are, just that she seems to be trapped far from home… What is he trying to do? This volume also features the story about a love affair between Charlie, an art conservator, and Orlando, the strong-willed Venetian man who hires her to consult on a painting he’s recently acquired.

Author : Trevor Dean,K. J. P. Lowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0521893763

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Marriage in Italy, 1300-1650 by Trevor Dean,K. J. P. Lowe Pdf

A collection of essays about marriage and the role of women in Renaissance Italy.

Author : Thomas Roscoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11216616

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Legends of Venice, illustr. by J.R. Herbert, ed. by T. Roscoe by Thomas Roscoe Pdf