Author: Amanda McCabe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101572868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Available digitally for the first time from acclaimed author Amanda McCabe comes a classic Signet Regency Romance of a great love on the Grand Canal. In the wake of a horrible accident that killed the wretched man who was to be her husband, Lady Elizabeth Everdean has fled to Italy, where she vows to become a great artist—and to never let another man control her destiny. Sir Nicholas Hollingsworth is as renowned as a war hero as he is as a rake. When the man who saved his life in battle asks him to find his missing sister Elizabeth, he departs at once for Venice. Only he never expects the object of his search to become the object of his desire… “A lively, delicious Regency.” —Karen Harbaugh “Excitingly sensuous, yet darkly haunting.” —Romantic Times Don’t miss Amanda McCabe’s forthcoming Signet Regency Romances, The Spanish Bride, available April 2012, and Lady Rogue, available May 2012.
Scandal in Venice
Stealing Venice
Author: Anna Erikssön Bendewald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781973560227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Nothing is what it appears to be in this lush destination thriller that takes readers into lives of the rich Venetians who live behind the ornate doors of their palazzos. Secrets are about to spin out of control. Contessa Giselle Verona jets between Paris and Venice creating dangerous sculptures that have gotten her banned from galleries, but collectors reach for their checkbooks to buy her next work of art. She lives a perfect life until an innocent artist is thrown up against her at a murder scene, and a powerful man she's never met decides to wage war against her in-laws. This suspenseful game of cat and mouse ricochets around sumptuous locales as family secrets draw in the Vatican, the Mafia and threatens the foundations of floating city itself.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781973560227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Nothing is what it appears to be in this lush destination thriller that takes readers into lives of the rich Venetians who live behind the ornate doors of their palazzos. Secrets are about to spin out of control. Contessa Giselle Verona jets between Paris and Venice creating dangerous sculptures that have gotten her banned from galleries, but collectors reach for their checkbooks to buy her next work of art. She lives a perfect life until an innocent artist is thrown up against her at a murder scene, and a powerful man she's never met decides to wage war against her in-laws. This suspenseful game of cat and mouse ricochets around sumptuous locales as family secrets draw in the Vatican, the Mafia and threatens the foundations of floating city itself.
Venice's Intimate Empire
Author: Erin Maglaque
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501721666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Mining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian noblemen, Giovanni Bembo and Pietro Coppo, who were appointed as colonial administrators and governors. In Venice’s Intimate Empire, she uses these two men and their families to showcase the relationship between humanism, empire, and family in the Venetian Mediterranean. Maglaque elaborates an intellectual history of Venice’s Mediterranean empire by examining how Venetian humanist education related to the task of governing. Taking that relationship as her cue, Maglaque unearths an intimate view of the emotions and subjectivities of imperial governors. In their writings, it was the affective relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, humanist teachers and their students that were the crucible for self-definition and political decision making. Venice’s Intimate Empire thus illuminates the experience of imperial governance by drawing connections between humanist education and family affairs. From marriage and reproduction to childhood and adolescence, we see how intimate life was central to the Bembo and Coppo families’ experience of empire. Maglaque skillfully argues that it was within the intimate family that Venetians’ relationships to empire—its politics, its shifting social structures, its metropolitan and colonial cultures—were determined.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501721666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Mining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian noblemen, Giovanni Bembo and Pietro Coppo, who were appointed as colonial administrators and governors. In Venice’s Intimate Empire, she uses these two men and their families to showcase the relationship between humanism, empire, and family in the Venetian Mediterranean. Maglaque elaborates an intellectual history of Venice’s Mediterranean empire by examining how Venetian humanist education related to the task of governing. Taking that relationship as her cue, Maglaque unearths an intimate view of the emotions and subjectivities of imperial governors. In their writings, it was the affective relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, humanist teachers and their students that were the crucible for self-definition and political decision making. Venice’s Intimate Empire thus illuminates the experience of imperial governance by drawing connections between humanist education and family affairs. From marriage and reproduction to childhood and adolescence, we see how intimate life was central to the Bembo and Coppo families’ experience of empire. Maglaque skillfully argues that it was within the intimate family that Venetians’ relationships to empire—its politics, its shifting social structures, its metropolitan and colonial cultures—were determined.
Scandal in Venice
Author: Amanda McCabe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781322802466
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781322802466
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Scandal of Kabbalah
Author: Yaacob Dweck
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691162158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition. From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah spread throughout the early modern world and became a central feature of Jewish life. Scholars have long studied the revolutionary impact of Kabbalah, but, as Yaacob Dweck argues, they have misunderstood the character and timing of opposition to it. Drawing on a rang.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691162158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition. From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah spread throughout the early modern world and became a central feature of Jewish life. Scholars have long studied the revolutionary impact of Kabbalah, but, as Yaacob Dweck argues, they have misunderstood the character and timing of opposition to it. Drawing on a rang.
Scandal!
Author: Alison Dagnes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1623562228
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
There are many types of political scandals: sex, corruption, and election scandals are but a few. Political scandals are public events that have tremendous consequence on citizenry and can undermine democratic institutions-when we pay attention to scandal, we risk ignoring weightier matters. This volume brings together an array of academics to explore the impact of political scandals. What makes this book different from others is the wide spectrum of perspectives brought together to help analyze a single subject.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1623562228
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
There are many types of political scandals: sex, corruption, and election scandals are but a few. Political scandals are public events that have tremendous consequence on citizenry and can undermine democratic institutions-when we pay attention to scandal, we risk ignoring weightier matters. This volume brings together an array of academics to explore the impact of political scandals. What makes this book different from others is the wide spectrum of perspectives brought together to help analyze a single subject.
Paolina's Innocence
Author: Larry Wolff
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804782105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In the summer of 1785, in the city of Venice, a wealthy 60-year-old man was arrested and accused of a scandalous offense: having sexual relations with the 8-year-old daughter of an impoverished laundress. Although the sexual abuse of children was probably not uncommon in early modern Europe, it is largely undocumented, and the concept of "child abuse" did not yet exist. The case of Paolina Lozaro and Gaetano Franceschini came before Venice's unusual blasphemy tribunal, the Bestemmia, which heard testimony from an entire neighborhood—from the parish priest to the madam of the local brothel. Paolina's Innocence considers Franceschini's conduct in the context of the libertinism of Casanova and also employs other prominent contemporaries—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Carlo Goldoni, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Cesare Beccaria, and the Marquis de Sade—as points of reference for understanding the case and broader issues of libertinism, sexual crime, childhood, and child abuse in the 18th century.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804782105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In the summer of 1785, in the city of Venice, a wealthy 60-year-old man was arrested and accused of a scandalous offense: having sexual relations with the 8-year-old daughter of an impoverished laundress. Although the sexual abuse of children was probably not uncommon in early modern Europe, it is largely undocumented, and the concept of "child abuse" did not yet exist. The case of Paolina Lozaro and Gaetano Franceschini came before Venice's unusual blasphemy tribunal, the Bestemmia, which heard testimony from an entire neighborhood—from the parish priest to the madam of the local brothel. Paolina's Innocence considers Franceschini's conduct in the context of the libertinism of Casanova and also employs other prominent contemporaries—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Carlo Goldoni, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Cesare Beccaria, and the Marquis de Sade—as points of reference for understanding the case and broader issues of libertinism, sexual crime, childhood, and child abuse in the 18th century.
Belgravia
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
The Chief British Dramatists
Author: Brander Matthews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
Venice's Secret Service
Author: Ioanna Iordanou
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198791313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Ioanna Iordanou traces the remarkable development of Venetian intelligence in the city-state system of Northern Italy, contesting that early-modern Venice was home of the world's first centrally-organized state intelligence service, setting a framework that has been instrumental in the creation of modern intelligence.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198791313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Ioanna Iordanou traces the remarkable development of Venetian intelligence in the city-state system of Northern Italy, contesting that early-modern Venice was home of the world's first centrally-organized state intelligence service, setting a framework that has been instrumental in the creation of modern intelligence.