The Venetian Bride

Author : Patricia Fortini Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192647350
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Venetian Bride written by Patricia Fortini Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of vendetta and intrigue, triumph and tragedy, exile and repatriation, this book recounts the interwoven microhistories of Count Girolamo Della Torre, a feudal lord with a castle and other properties in the Friuli, and Giulia Bembo, grand-niece of Cardinal Pietro Bembo and daughter of Gian Matteo Bembo, a powerful Venetian senator with a distinguished career in service to the Venetian Republic. Their marriage in the mid-sixteenth century might be regarded as emblematic of the Venetian experience, with the metropole at the center of a fragmented empire: a Terraferma nobleman and the daughter of a Venetian senator, who raised their family in far off Crete in the stato da mar, in Venice itself, and in the Friuli and the Veneto in the stato da terra. The fortunes and misfortunes of the nine surviving Della Torre children and their descendants, tracked through the end of the Republic in 1797, are likewise emblematic of a change in feudal culture from clan solidarity to individualism and intrafamily strife, and ultimately, redemption. Despite the efforts by both the Della Torre and the Bembo families to preserve the patrimony through a succession of male heirs, the last survivor in the paternal bloodline of each was a daughter. This epic tale highlights the role of women in creating family networks and opens a precious window into a contentious period in which Venetian republican values clash with the deeply rooted feudal traditions of honor and blood feuds of the mainland.

Author : Patricia Fortini Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192894579
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Venetian Bride written by Patricia Fortini Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of vendetta and intrigue, triumph and tragedy, exile and repatriation, this book recounts the interwoven microhistories of Count Girolamo Della Torre, a feudal lord with a castle and other properties in the Friuli, and Giulia Bembo, grand-niece of Cardinal Pietro Bembo and daughter of Gian Matteo Bembo, a powerful Venetian senator with a distinguished career in service to the Venetian Republic. Their marriage in the mid-sixteenth century might be regarded as emblematic of the Venetian experience, with the metropole at the center of a fragmented empire: a Terraferma nobleman and the daughter of a Venetian senator, who raised their family in far off Crete in the stato da mar, in Venice itself, and in the Friuli and the Veneto in the stato da terra. The fortunes and misfortunes of the nine surviving Della Torre children and their descendants, tracked through the end of the Republic in 1797, are likewise emblematic of a change in feudal culture from clan solidarity to individualism and intrafamily strife, and ultimately, redemption. Despite the efforts by both the Della Torre and the Bembo families to preserve the patrimony through a succession of male heirs, the last survivor in the paternal bloodline of each was a daughter. This epic tale highlights the role of women in creating family networks and opens a precious window into a contentious period in which Venetian republican values clash with the deeply rooted feudal traditions of honor and blood feuds of the mainland.

Author : Lucy Gordon
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN 13 : 4596682321
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Venetian Playboy's Bride written by Lucy Gordon and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private eye Darcy Maddox has been hired to investigate Federico Lucci, who’s under suspicion of embezzlement. She arrives in Venice and finds “Federico,” but the man she’s found is actually Guido posing as his friend. Darcy has no interest in a relationship, but, in order to investigate “Federico,” she spends time with him. Soon they both feel their relationship starting to grow, but both feel guilty for keeping their true identity hidden. How long can they wear the masks that hide their true faces? And how will they react when the truth is laid bare?

Author : Lucy Gordon
Publisher : Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Romanc
ISBN 13 : 9780373037445
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Venetian Playboy's Bride written by Lucy Gordon and published by Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Romanc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Venetian Playboy's Bride by Lucy Gordon released on Mar 25, 2003 is available now for purchase.

Author : David Alan Brown
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300116779
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting written by David Alan Brown and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a survey of sixty Venetian Renaissance paintings of the calibre of Bellini and Titian's "Feast of the Gods" in Washington and Giorgione's "Laura and Three Philosophers" in Vienna.

Author : Patricia Fortini Brown
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300067003
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venice & Antiquity written by Patricia Fortini Brown and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inscriptions, medals, and travelers' accounts, on more learned humanist and antiquarian writings, and, most importantly, on the art of the period, Brown explores Venice's evolving sense of the past. She begins with the late middle ages, when Venice sought to invent a dignified civic past by means of object, image, and text. Moving on to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, she discusses the collecting and recording of antiquities and the incorporation of Roman forms.

Author : Patricia H. Labalme
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000944832
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints, Women and Humanists in Renaissance Venice written by Patricia H. Labalme and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the published academic essays of the Renaissance historian Patricia Hochschild Labalme (1927-2002). Appearing between 1955 and 1999, they deal with the intellectual, social and religious life of Venice in the 15th-16th centuries. An important focus is the exploration of the careers, milieu and writings of cultural and literary women of early modern Venice, a field to which the author made a particular contribution.

Author : Jan Morris
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571247881
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venice written by Jan Morris and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Thomas Roscoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legends of Venice written by Thomas Roscoe and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucy Gordon
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN 13 : 4596689334
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE STAND-IN BRIDE written by Lucy Gordon and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie’s English-language pupil Catalina is soon to be married to Don Sebastian of Spain. Despite both parties consenting to the marriage, Maggie believes her student is far too young to enter a loveless marriage at only eighteen. At Catalina’s behest, Maggie agrees to go with her to Spain in order to be her bridesmaid. Maggie’s first impression of Sebastian was that of an overbearing dictator, but she can’t help but notice the dashing don possesses a dangerous charm. She knows nothing good can come of involving herself with him, but his pull proves too great. And after he plants a daring kiss on her lips, Maggie’s body begins to burn with desire.