The Veils Of Venice

Author : Edward Sklepowich
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504001370
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Veils of Venice written by Edward Sklepowich and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating a killing, Macintyre finds it to be a family affair As snow falls on Venice, turning the city into an elaborate gothic confection, Gaby Pindar fears for her life. Crippled by intense agoraphobia, she hasn’t left her family home in two decades, instead dedicating herself to tending to the small collection of historical trinkets that make up the family museum. When she begins receiving death threats, she begs for help from her cousin, the Contessa da Capo-Zendrini, whose friend Urbino Macintyre is something of an amateur sleuth. But the search takes a gruesome turn when Gaby’s sister, Olimpia, turns up dead. The contessa finds Olimpia murdered in her home, the maid kneeling above her with a bloody pair of scissors. Convinced of the maid’s innocence, Macintyre digs into the Pindar family history, discovering centuries’ worth of intrigue that have finally erupted in blood.

Author : Edward Sklepowich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781322437125
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Veils of Venice written by Edward Sklepowich and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating a killing, Macintyre finds it to be a family affair As snow falls on Venice, turning the city into an elaborate gothic confection, Gaby Pindar fears for her life. Crippled by intense agoraphobia, she hasn{u2019}t left her family home in two decades, instead dedicating herself to tending to the small collection of historical trinkets that make up the family museum. When she begins receiving death threats, she begs for help from her cousin, the Contessa da Capo-Zendrini, whose friend Urbino Macintyre is something of an amateur sleuth. But the search takes a gruesome turn when Gaby{u2019}s sister, Olimpia, turns up dead. The contessa finds Olimpia murdered in her home, the maid kneeling above her with a bloody pair of scissors. Convinced of the maid{u2019}s innocence, Macintyre digs into the Pindar family history, discovering centuries{u2019} worth of intrigue that have finally erupted in blood.

Author : Deborah Howard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300085044
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venice & the East written by Deborah Howard and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As European cities such as Venice looked further afield, not only for material goods, but also for artistic inspiration and information on new technologies and ideas, they inevitably came into contact with a great many new cultures. In this book Deborah Howard explores the experiences of Venetian merchants and travellers in the East and the influences that were brought to the city from the Islamic cultures encountered. The study is based on the literature of travellers, objects, buildings and architecture, documents and manuscripts, and takes a thematic look at the city: San Marco, the Merchant City, palaces, Palazzo Ducale, the Pilgrim City.

Author : Pompeo Molmenti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venice written by Pompeo Molmenti and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James H. Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520294653
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venice Incognito written by James H. Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The entire town is disguised," declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks—nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men—could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun donned a mask and male attire for her liaison with the libertine Casanova. In Venice Incognito, James H. Johnson offers a spirited analysis of masking in this carnival-loving city. He draws on a wealth of material to explore the world view of maskers, both during and outside of carnival, and reconstructs their logic: covering the face in public was a uniquely Venetian response to one of the most rigid class hierarchies in European history. This vivid account goes beyond common views that masking was about forgetting the past and minding the muse of pleasure to offer fresh insight into the historical construction of identity.

Author : Pompeo Molmenti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venice, Its Individual Growth from the Earliest Beginnings to the Fall of the Republic: The decadence. 2 v written by Pompeo Molmenti and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jutta Gisela Sperling
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226769364
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice written by Jutta Gisela Sperling and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late sixteenth-century Venice, nearly 60 percent of all patrician women joined convents, and only a minority of these women did so voluntarily. In trying to explain why unprecedented numbers of patrician women did not marry, historians have claimed that dowries became too expensive. However, Jutta Gisela Sperling debunks this myth and argues that the rise of forced vocations happened within the context of aristocratic culture and society. Sperling explains how women were not allowed to marry beneath their social status while men could, especially if their brides were wealthy. Faced with a shortage of suitable partners, patrician women were forced to offer themselves as "a gift not only to God, but to their fatherland," as Patriarch Giovanni Tiepolo told the Senate of Venice in 1619. Noting the declining birth rate among patrician women, Sperling explores the paradox of a marriage system that preserved the nobility at the price of its physical extinction. And on a more individual level, she tells the fascinating stories of these women. Some became scholars or advocates of women's rights, some took lovers, and others escaped only to survive as servants, prostitutes, or thieves.

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271048369
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Palaces of Medieval Venice written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval palaces of Venice are unlike those from anywhere else and they also survive in this equally unique city in far greater numbers. This well-presented study argues, however, that contrary to other opinions, the architecture of Venice was developed from that of northern and western Europe and not from that of Byzantium and Late Antiquity.

Author : Daniel Szechi
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1845861558
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Trade written by Daniel Szechi and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secret history of Europe, opening up the hidden world of spies.

Author : Kären Wigen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022671862X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time in Maps written by Kären Wigen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today’s digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense of time into the spatial medium of maps. Historians Kären Wigen and Caroline Winterer have assembled leading scholars to consider how maps from all over the world have depicted time in ingenious and provocative ways. Focusing on maps created in Spanish America, Europe, the United States, and Asia, these essays take us from the Aztecs documenting the founding of Tenochtitlan, to early modern Japanese reconstructing nostalgic landscapes before Western encroachments, to nineteenth-century Americans grappling with the new concept of deep time. The book also features a defense of traditional paper maps by digital mapmaker William Rankin. With more than one hundred color maps and illustrations, Time in Maps will draw the attention of anyone interested in cartographic history.