Author: Catherine Ann WarfieldPublisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Cardinals Daughter
Author: Catherine Ann WarfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The cardinal's daughter
Author: Robert Mackenzie DanielPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 318
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The Cardinal's Daughter; a Novel, Etc
Author: Robert Mackenzie DanielPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Cardinal's Daughter. A Novel
Author: Robert Mackenzie DANIELPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Twenty-One Cardinals
Author: Jocelyne SaucierPublisher: Coach House Books
ISBN: 1770564071
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The twenty-one children of the Cardinal family have congregated to celebrate their father, who discovered the mine around which their now-desolate town was built. As the siblings run wild, we discover that Angèle, the only Cardinal with a penchant for happiness, is missing—although everyone pretends not to notice. Why the silence? What secrets does the mine hold? Jocelyne Saucier is the author of several novels, including Il pleuvait des oiseaux, which won the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie. Rhonda Mullins was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for her translation of Saucier's And the Birds Rained Down.
The Pope's Daughter
Author: Dario FoPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1609452844
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most vilified women in modern history. The daughter of a notorious pope, she was twice betrothed before the age of eleven and thrice married—one husband was forced to declare himself impotent and thereby unfit and another was murdered by Lucrezia’s own brother, Cesar Borgia. She is cast in the role of murderess, temptress, incestuous lover, loose woman, femme fatale par excellence. But there are two sides to every story. Lucrezia Borgia is the only woman in history to have serve as the head of the Catholic Church. She successfully administered several of Renaissance Italy’s most thriving cities, founded one of the world’s first credit unions, and was a generous patron of the arts. She was mother to a prince and to a cardinal. She was a devoted wife to the Prince of Ferrara, and the lover of the poet Pietro Bembo. She was a child of the renaissance and, in many ways, the world’s first modern woman. In this richly imagined novel, Nobel laureate Dario Fo reveals Lucrezia’s humanity, her passion for life, her compassion for others, and her skill at navigating around her family’s evildoings. The Borgias are unrivalled for the range and magnitude of their political machinations and opportunism. Fo’s brilliance rests in his rendering their story as a shocking mirror image of the uses and abuses of power in our own time. Lucrezia herself becomes a model for how to survive and rise above those abuses. Part Wolf Hall, part House of Cards, The Pope's Daugther will appeal to readers of historical fiction and of contemporary fiction alike and will delight anyone fascinated by Renaissance Italy.
The Cardinals Way
Author: Howard MegdalPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250058317
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Chronicles the history and tradition of the St. Louis Cardinals, from the era when they were managed by Branch Rickey in the years following World War I to the present day.
Vincent Price: A Daughter's Biography
Author: Victoria PricePublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486834824
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
The inside story of the legendary actor's 65-year career — from radio to classic movies and horror films to Broadway — and his family life. "Entertaining and touching." — The New York Times.
The Cardinals
Author: Michael J. WalshPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802829414
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Although a highly visible part of the ecclesiastical furniture of the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican for thirteen centuries, surprisingly little has been written about cardinals or (apart from some notable individual biographies), about the men who became papal princes . The cardinals of the Roman Church are the nearly men of Catholicism - those whose office since the 11th century has been chiefly to choose the Pope, following efforts to wrest this power from Rome s nobility and militia. This compelling history traces the origins and growth of the office of cardinal and tells the stories of some of the remarkable (for all kinds of reasons) men who have worn the red cap, coveted by some, refused on occasion and sometimes laid down in exchange for marriage, though one maverick got wed in his red hat. The Cardinals is an informative and entertaining look at the lives of some of the more colourful characters who have worn the cardinatial red or purple. It reveals an unlikely company of saints and villains, patrons of the arts and scholars, cardinals who might have been pope but who were blackballed, and cardinals who were deprived of the title because of their dissolute lives, doubtful opinions, or interference in papal policies. There are diplomats in these pages, statesmen, kingmakers and soldiers. There are members of royal and noble families, and the son of a Doge of Venice. And there are the cardinals whose fame simply lies in their goodness and their care of the dioceses entrusted to them.
Author: L. Muhlbach