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Author: Dennis Wheatley Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1448212936 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 603
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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.
Author: Dennis Wheatley Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1448212936 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 603
Book Description
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.
Author: Amanda McCabe Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101572868 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 215
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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.
Author: Charles FitzRoy Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 140819211X Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 229
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'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.
Author: Joanne M. Ferraro Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 1421429071 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 267
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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.
Author: Margaret Plant Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300083866 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 576
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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.
Author: John Ruskin Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art critics Languages : en Pages : 626
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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.
Author: Dennis Wheatley
Author: Dennis Wheatley
Author: Dennis Wheatley
Author: Dennis Wheatley
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Author: Charles FitzRoy
Author: Joanne M. Ferraro
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Author: John Ruskin