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Author: Leo Colovini Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1471679438 Category : Fiction Languages : it Pages : 322
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Il Casin degli spiriti è un intreccio tra invenzione letteraria e avvenimenti reali ricostruiti con accuratezza storica. La vicenda principale si svolge a Venezia nel 1966, alternandosi a numerosi flashback che rivelano di volta in volta gli antefatti verificatisi nel 1912 e poi nel 1939.Miklos Dolnar, cosmopolita scacchista professionista e Ilaria Ferretti, assistente universitaria all'università di Ca' Foscari, si conoscono ed iniziano a frequentarsi e ad innamorarsi l'uno dell'altra.Nel corso di una romantica gita in barca tra i rii veneziani, Ilaria riconosce nel Casin degli spiriti il luogo che segnò tragicamente la sua infanzia, in cui fu condotta da bambina e da cui probabilmente il padre Vittorio scomparve nel 1939 alla vigilia della seconda guerra mondiale.I due iniziano ad indagare in una Venezia su cui incombe la grande alluvione del 1966 sta infatti per raggiungere il livello record di 194 centimetri sopra il livello del mare che segnerà per sempre le sorti della città.
Author: Leo Colovini Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1471679438 Category : Fiction Languages : it Pages : 322
Book Description
Il Casin degli spiriti è un intreccio tra invenzione letteraria e avvenimenti reali ricostruiti con accuratezza storica. La vicenda principale si svolge a Venezia nel 1966, alternandosi a numerosi flashback che rivelano di volta in volta gli antefatti verificatisi nel 1912 e poi nel 1939.Miklos Dolnar, cosmopolita scacchista professionista e Ilaria Ferretti, assistente universitaria all'università di Ca' Foscari, si conoscono ed iniziano a frequentarsi e ad innamorarsi l'uno dell'altra.Nel corso di una romantica gita in barca tra i rii veneziani, Ilaria riconosce nel Casin degli spiriti il luogo che segnò tragicamente la sua infanzia, in cui fu condotta da bambina e da cui probabilmente il padre Vittorio scomparve nel 1939 alla vigilia della seconda guerra mondiale.I due iniziano ad indagare in una Venezia su cui incombe la grande alluvione del 1966 sta infatti per raggiungere il livello record di 194 centimetri sopra il livello del mare che segnerà per sempre le sorti della città.
Author: Jan Morris Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571247881 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 275
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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: Jenn Stark Publisher: Elewyn Publishing ISBN: 1943768420 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 281
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Starting a new job can be murder. As the first Justice of the Arcana Council in two hundred years, Tarot-reading Sara Wilde is tasked with taking out the most dangerous magic-wielding criminals on the planet. Her first assignment? A killer known only as the Red King, who's systematically picking off the world's most gifted magicians in the rollicking streets and storied canals of Venice, Italy, on the eve of Carnevale. Amidst the festival's music, masks, and brightly colored costumes, Sara must unravel the truth about a brutal murderer from Venice's own murky past, navigate the twisting political currents of magicians who seek to rival her own Council, and keep one costume change ahead of a conjurer whose lethal spells could end Justice--permanently. Good thing the diabolically sexy and deeply powerful Magician of the Arcana Council has Sara's back...if only he didn't hold so much of her heart as well. The canals of Venice will run with blood when you deal in The Red King.
Author: Edward Sklepowich Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504001354 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 335
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Investigating a few lost trinkets, Urbino Macintyre discovers a mysterious murder Samuel Possle is Venice’s oldest expatriate, a reclusive former playboy whose hedonistic youth would make the perfect subject for a book—that is, if any writer could make him talk. Biographer and amateur sleuth Urbino Macintyre has been trying for months to get an interview with Possle, and he is about to give up when his closest friend, the Contessa da Capo-Zendrini, offers to introduce him to Possle in exchange for a favor. Worthless items have gone missing from her home, and she wants Macintyre to find out if they were stolen or if her mind is beginning to slip. What appears to be an innocuous case will lead Macintyre down a treacherous canal. Interviewing Possle and searching for the contessa’s missing baubles draws the detective into the city’s gothic underbelly, where dark figures seem to lurk around every corner, and the fog conceals terrible secrets.
Author: Elizabeth Horodowich Publisher: Robinson ISBN: 1472107748 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 195
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In this colourful new history of Venice, Elizabeth Horodowich, one of the leading experts on Venice, tells the story of the place from its ancient origins, and its early days as a multicultural trading city where Christians, Jews and Muslims lived together at the crossroads between East and West. She explores the often overlooked role of Venice, alongside Florence and Rome, as one of the principal Renaissance capitals. Now, as the resident population falls and the number of tourists grows, as brash new advertisements disfigure the ancient buildings, she looks at the threat from the rising water level and the future of one of the great wonders of the world.
Author: Gabriele D'Annunzio Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300155425 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 345
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Composed during a period of extended bed rest, Gabriele D'Annunzio's Notturno is a moving prose poem in which imagination, experience, and remembrance intertwine. The somber atmosphere of the poem reflects the circumstances of its creation. With his vision threatened and his eyes completely bandaged, D'Annunzio suffered months of near-total blindness and pain-wracked infirmity in 1921, and yet he managed to write on small strips of paper, each wide enough for a single line. When the poet eventually regained his sight, he put together these strips to create the lyrical and innovative Notturno. In Notturno D'Annunzio forges an original prose that merges aspects of formal poetry and autobiographical narrative. He fuses the darkness and penumbra of the present with the immediate past, haunted by war memories, death, and mourning, and also with the more distant past, revolving mainly around his mother and childhood. In this remarkable translation of the work, Stephen Sartarelli preserves the antiquated style of D'Annunzio's poetic prose and the tension of his rich and difficult harmonies, bringing to contemporary readers the full texture and complexity of a creation forged out of darkness.
Author: Elisabeth G. Gleason Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520310330 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 356
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
Author: Leo Colovini
Author: Leo Colovini
Author: Jan Morris
Author: Jenn Stark
Author: Lady Lindsay (Caroline Blanche Elizabeth)
Author: Hugh A. Douglas
Author: Edward Sklepowich
Author: Edward Hutton
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Author: Gabriele D'Annunzio
Author: Elisabeth G. Gleason