The Madonna Of The Almonds

Author : Marina Fiorato
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1848547978
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Madonna of the Almonds written by Marina Fiorato and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second unforgettable historical love story set in Italy from Marina Fiorato, author of the bestseller THE GLASSBLOWER OF MURANO. For fans of Philippa Gregory, Sarah Dunant and Alison Weir. Bernardino Luini, favoured apprentice of Leonardo da Vinci, is commissioned to paint a religious fresco in the hills of Lombardy. His eye is caught by the beautiful Simonetta di Saronno, a young noblewoman who has lost her husband to battle, and whose fortune is gone. Captivated by her beauty and sadness, Bernardino paints Simonetta's likeness, immortalizing her as the Madonna in his miraculous frescoes in Saronno's church. As the sittings progress, artist and model fall in love, and Simonetta reciprocates Luini's genius by creating a drinnk for her lover from the juice of almonds - the famous Amaretto di Saronno. As the frescoes and the liqueur near their completion, the couple's affair distils into a heady brew of religious scandal which threatens their love, and ultimately their lives. Who is the mysterious Jew with a golden hand? And how does a mute young soldier affect Simonetta's destiny?

Author : Sarah McCartney
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 0711242186
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perfume Companion written by Sarah McCartney and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perfume Companion is a beautifully illustrated compendium of almost 500 recommended scents. It organizes and explores fragrances in a bid to guide readers toward new favourites. Filled with vibrant descriptions and specially commissioned detailed illustrations that bring the fragrances and their beautiful bottles to life, it is the ideal introduction to the complex world of scent.

Author : R. W. Lightbown
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300102860
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carlo Crivelli written by R. W. Lightbown and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venetian artist Carlo Crivelli (c. 1430–1495) is a painter whose individuality of style and mastery of powerful line have fascinated many, but whose life and art have remained enigmatic. This absorbing book, drawing on extensive research in Venice and the Marches, the region of central Italy that Crivelli dominated artistically from 1468 until his death, examines his paintings in depth and traces the fundamental influences of the Vivarini, of Squarcione and Mantegna, and later of Flemish art. Ronald Lightbown, eminent historian of Italian Renaissance art, interweaves stylistic and iconographical analysis of Crivelli’s work with historical and cultural background. The author uncovers the reasons that led patrons to choose the saints that figured in Crivelli’s altarpieces, discusses the initiations of new cults and the devising of an iconography for them, and demonstrates Crivelli’s independence from clerical dictation in the symbolism of his still-life pictures.

Author : Bernhard Fritz-Krockow
Publisher : Writers Republic LLC
ISBN 13 : 1637289766
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sips Through the Ages: History and Art of the Cocktail written by Bernhard Fritz-Krockow and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara Bryant
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423634659
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Almonds written by Barbara Bryant and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of information and “simple and creative” recipes that make the most of this delicious, nutritious nut (Daniel Boulud, chef and restaurateur). From the anatomy of a nut to the history of the almond in world culture, the cultivation of almond orchards in California, and nutrition provided by a favorite nut, this book provide a wealth of information about the versatile, high-protein, diet-friendly almond—along with numerous recipes that incorporate this scrumptious ingredient in snacks, starters, salads, pasta dishes, entrees, and desserts. Try over 50 recipes including Soba Noodles with Spicy Almond Butter Sauce · Almond-Crusted Pork Chops with Sweet-and-Sour Apricot Glaze • Lamb Tagine with Apricots, Almonds and Honey • Almond Florentine Cookies • Chocolate-Amaretto Torte • Moroccan Rice Pudding • Chocolate-Almond Bark • and more Includes photos

Author : Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656391455
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jewels of the Madonna written by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Jewels of the Madonna: Opera in Three Acts on Neapolitan Life For Whom does the spring shed its perfume, For whom is the almond in blossom? For maidens who live for a lover. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Richard Folkard
Publisher : London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics written by Richard Folkard and published by London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington. This book was released on 1884 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sara Andrew Shafer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A White-paper Garden written by Sara Andrew Shafer and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elise Valmorbida
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0399592431
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Madonna of the Mountains written by Elise Valmorbida and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A riveting adventure for the soul . . . just the kind of evocative historical fiction I love.”—Sara Gruen, author of At the Water’s Edge and Water for Elephants An epic, inspiring novel about one woman’s survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside and her determination to protect her family throughout the Second World War—by any means possible Maria Vittoria is twenty-five when her father brings home the man who will become her husband. It is 1923 in the austere Italian mountain village where her family has lived for generations, and the man she sees is tall and handsome and has survived the First World War without any noticeable scars. Taking just the linens she has sewn that make up her dowry and a statue of the Madonna that sits by her bedside, Maria leaves the only life she has ever known to begin a family. But her future will not be what she imagines. The Madonna of the Mountains follows Maria over the next three decades, as she moves to the town where she and her husband become shopkeepers, through the birth of their five children, through the hardships and cruelties of the National Fascist Party Rule and the Second World War. Struggling with the cost of survival at a time when food is scarce and allegiances are questioned, Maria trusts no one and fears everyone—her Fascist cousin, the madwoman from her childhood, her watchful neighbors, the Nazis and the Partisans who show up hungry at her door. As Maria’s children grow up and her marriage endures its own hardships, she must hold her family together with resilience, love, and faith, until she makes a fateful decision that will change the course of all their lives. A sweeping saga about womanhood, loyalty, war, religion, family, food, motherhood, and marriage, The Madonna of the Mountains is a poignant look at the span of one woman’s life as the rules change and her world becomes unrecognizable. In depicting the great cost of war and the ineluctable power of time on a life, Elise Valmorbida has created an unforgettable portrait of a woman navigating both the unforeseen and the inevitable. Advance praise for Madonna of the Mountains “The moral and ethical questions raised propel the story beyond the particulars into the universal.”—Kirkus Reviews “It is a bewitching but entirely unsentimental portrait of one woman’s attempt to keep her family safe in turbulent times.”—The Times (UK), Book of the Month “A solid choice for readers who appreciate layered family sagas.”—Library Journal

Author : Maurice Dekobra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars written by Maurice Dekobra and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: