The Venetian Contract

Author : Marina Fiorato
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 1848545657

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The Venetian Contract by Marina Fiorato Pdf

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.

Author : Marina Fiorato
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466840898

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The Venetian Bargain by Marina Fiorato Pdf

Venice, 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 life is in danger too, and it will require all the skills of Annibale Cason, the city's finest plague doctor, to keep him alive. What Annibale had not counted on was meeting Feyra, who is now under Palladio's protection—an impossible woman whose medical skills and determination are matched only by his own. From Marina Fiorato, author of the acclaimed historical novel The Glassblower of Murano, comes a triumphant return to historical Venice with Venetian Bargain.

Author : Deborah Howard,Sarah Quill,Laura Moretti
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300090293

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The Architectural History of Venice by Deborah Howard,Sarah Quill,Laura Moretti Pdf

Overzicht van de Venetiaanse architectuur, vanaf de stichting in de Romeinse tijd tot nu.

Author : United States. Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1560 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Defense contracts
ISBN : HARVARD:32044057157919

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Board of Contract Appeals Decisions by United States. Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals Pdf

The full texts of Armed Services and othr Boards of Contract Appeals decisions on contracts appeals.

Author : Reinhold C. Mueller
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421431420

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The Venetian Money Market by Reinhold C. Mueller Pdf

The long awaited conclusion to the magisterial Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice. Originally published in 1997. In 1985 Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller published the magisterial Money and Banking in Medieval and Renaissance Venice, volume 1: Coins and Moneys of Account. Now, after ten years of further research and writing, Reinhold Mueller completes the work that he and the late Frederic Lane began. The history of money and banking in Venice is crucial to an understanding of European economic history. Because of its strategic location between East and West, Venice rapidly rose to a position of preeminence in Mediterranean trade. To keep trade moving from London to Constantinople and beyond, Venetian merchants and bankers created specialized financial institutions to serve private entrepreneurs and public administrators: deposit banks, foreign exchange banks, a grain office, and a bureau of the public debt. This new book clarifies Venice's pivotal role in Italian and international banking and finance. It also sets banking—and panics—in the context of more generalized and recurrent crises involving territorial wars, competition for markets, and debates over interest rates and the question of usury.

Author : James Ellroy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307798428

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White Jazz by James Ellroy Pdf

The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire. Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat," and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it's dues time. Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive. Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering.

Author : Frederic Chapin Lane
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781789124736

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Venetian Ships and Shipbuilders of the Renaissance by Frederic Chapin Lane Pdf

ORIGINALLY published in 1934, this major study by Frederic Lane tracks the rise and decline of the great shipbuilding industry of Renaissance Venice. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, Lane presents detailed descriptions of the Venetian arsenal, including the great galleys that doubled as cargo ships and warships; the sixteenth-century round ships, which introduced dramatic innovations in rigging and were less vulnerable to attack than the galleys; and the majestic galleons, whose straight lines and greater speed made them ideal for merchantmen but whose narrowness made them liable to capsize if loaded with artillery. Lane also includes vivid accounts of the rivalries between the famous shipbuilders of the period. There was the impassioned competition between Leonardo Bressan and Marco Francesco Rosso to design the quickest, lightest galley—a contest that Bressan won when Rosso was crushed to death; the race between Vettor Fausto and Matteo Bressan to build the best galleon for use against pirates; and the rivalry between Bernardo di Bernardo and Nicolò Palopano to be the master builder of great merchant galleys. Additional chapters detail the actual process of ship construction, from the design stage, to framing and ribbing the hull, to building the rigging; the organization and activity of the shipbuilders craft guilds and the various private shipyards; and the development and management of the Arsenal. Tables and appendixes detail the types, measurements, number, and capacity of the ships, as well as the wages of the shipbuilders.

Author : Freya North
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007462186

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Chloe by Freya North Pdf

NEW on ebook for the first time with NEW author afterword.She wanted a man in her life. Now she has four.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Engineering
ISBN : IOWA:31858020782581

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Engineering News and American Contract Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Mallett
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848849280

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Mercenaries and Their Masters by Michael Mallett Pdf

The eminent Renaissance historian’s classic study of warfare between Italian city-states between the 13th and 16th centuries. Michael Mallett’s lucid account of the age of the condottieri—or mercenary captains of fortune—and of the soldiers who fought under them is set in the wider context of the Italian society of the time and of the warring city-states who employed them. Mallett presents a colorful portrait of the mercenaries themselves, as well as their commanders and their campaigns, while also exploring how war was practiced in the Renaissance world. Mallett puts special focus on the 15th century, a confused period of turbulence and transition when standing armies were formed in Italy and more modern types of military organization took hold across Europe. But it also looks back to the middle ages, and forward to the Italian wars of the sixteenth century when foreign armies disputed the European balance of power on Italian soil. First published I 1974, Mallett’s pioneering study remains an essential text on the subject of warfare in the late medieval period and the Renaissance.

Author : Paula Weideger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781439122334

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Venetian Dreaming by Paula Weideger Pdf

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.

Author : Bruno Mugnai
Publisher : Soldiershop Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9788893270083

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History&Uniforms 2 GB by Bruno Mugnai Pdf

In this book: Ancient and Medieval Chinese Warfare: Armies of the Qin Dynasty -The Battle of Agnadello 14th May 1509 - The Venetian Army and Navy in the Holy League War, 1684-99 (part three) - Italian Units of the British Army, 1806-1814 (part two) - Forgotten Fronts of WWI: German Micronesia.

Author : Rena N. Lauer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812250886

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Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete by Rena N. Lauer Pdf

When Venice conquered Crete in the early thirteenth century, a significant population of Jews lived in the capital and main port city of Candia. This community grew, diversified, and flourished both culturally and economically throughout the period of Venetian rule, and although it adhered to traditional Jewish ways of life, the community also readily engaged with the broader population and the island's Venetian colonial government. In Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete, Rena N. Lauer tells the story of this unusual and little-known community through the lens of its flexible use of the legal systems at its disposal. Grounding the book in richly detailed studies of individuals and judicial cases—concerning matters as prosaic as taxation and as dramatic as bigamy and murder—Lauer brings the Jews of Candia vibrantly to life. Despite general rabbinic disapproval of such behavior elsewhere in medieval Europe, Crete's Jews regularly turned not only to their own religious courts but also to the secular Venetian judicial system. There they aired disputes between family members, business partners, spouses, and even the leaders of their community. And with their use of secular justice as both symptom and cause, Lauer contends, Crete's Jews grew more open and flexible, confident in their identity and experiencing little of the anti-Judaism increasingly suffered by their coreligionists in Western Europe.

Author : Andrea Di Robilant
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307424556

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A Venetian Affair by Andrea Di Robilant Pdf

In the waning days of Venice’s glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city’s oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter of a Venetian mother and British father. Because of their dramatically different positions in society, they could not marry. And Giustiniana’s mother, afraid that an affair would ruin her daughter’s chances to form a more suitable union, forbade them to see each other. Her prohibition only fueled their desire and so began their torrid, secret seven-year-affair, enlisting the aid of a few intimates and servants (willing to risk their own positions) to shuttle love letters back and forth and to help facilitate their clandestine meetings. Eventually, Giustiniana found herself pregnant and she turned for help to the infamous Casanova–himself infatuated with her. Two and half centuries later, the unbelievable story of this star-crossed couple is told in a breathtaking narrative, re-created in part from the passionate, clandestine letters Andrea and Giustiniana wrote to each other.

Author : Marina Fiorato
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429984562

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The Glassblower of Murano by Marina Fiorato Pdf

Venice, 1681. Glassblowing is the lifeblood of the Republic, and Venetian mirrors are more precious than gold. Jealously guarded by the murderous Council of Ten, the glassblowers of Murano are virtually imprisoned on their island in the lagoon. But the greatest of the artists, Corradino Manin, sells his methods and his soul to the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, to protect his secret daughter. In the present day his descendant, Leonora Manin, leaves an unhappy life in London to begin a new one as a glassblower in Venice. As she finds new life and love in her adoptive city, her fate becomes inextricably linked with that of her ancestor and the treacherous secrets of his life begin to come to light.