Daughter of Venice
Title | Daughter of Venice PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
Publisher | Wendy Lamb Books |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2002-05-14 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0375890076 |
In 1592, Donata is a noble girl living in a palazzo on the Grand Canal. Girls of her class receive no education and rarely leave the palazzo. In a noble family, only one daughter and one son will be allowed to marry; Donata, like all younger daughters, will be sent to a convent. Donata longs to be tutored like her brothers and to see the Venice she has glimpsed only on the map. What is the world beyond her balcony, beyond what she sees when she glides, veiled, in a gondola down the canal? She dresses as a boy and escapes the palazzo on the Grand Canal to see the world before she is shut away, and to try to find a way to escape her fate. Donata risks everything; she changes her life, and her family’s life, forever when she walks through the door and encounters a Venice she never knew existed.
Daughter of Venice
Title | Daughter of Venice PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Jo Napoli |
Publisher | Laurel Leaf |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2003-12-09 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0440229286 |
In 1592, Donata is a noble girl living in a palazzo on the Grand Canal. Girls of her class receive no education and rarely leave the palazzo. In a noble family, only one daughter and one son will be allowed to marry; Donata, like all younger daughters, will be sent to a convent. Donata longs to be tutored like her brothers and to see the Venice she has glimpsed only on the map. What is the world beyond her balcony, beyond what she sees when she glides, veiled, in a gondola down the canal? She dresses as a boy and escapes the palazzo on the Grand Canal to see the world before she is shut away, and to try to find a way to escape her fate. Donata risks everything; she changes her life, and her family’s life, forever when she walks through the door and encounters a Venice she never knew existed.
The Book of Venice
Title | The Book of Venice PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabetta Baldisserotto |
Publisher | Comma Press |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2021-05-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 191269753X |
An inspector rages against the announcement that police HQ is to relocate – the way so many of the city’s residents already have – to the mainland... An aspiring author struggles with the inexorable creep of rentalisation that has forced him to share his apartment, and life, with ‘global pilgrims’... An ageing painter rails against the liberties taken by tourists, but finds his anger undermined by his own childhood memories of the place... The Venice presented in these stories is a far cry from the ‘impossibly beautiful’, frozen-in-time city so familiar to the thousands who flock there every year – a city about which, Henry James once wrote, ‘there is nothing new to be said.’ Instead, they represent the other Venice, the one tourists rarely see: the real, everyday city that Venetians have to live and work in. Rather than a city in stasis, we see it at a crossroads, fighting to regain its radical, working-class soul, regretting the policies that have seen it turn slowly into a theme park, and taking the pandemic as an opportunity to rethink what kind of city it wants to be.
Serenissima
Title | Serenissima PDF eBook |
Author | Erica Jong |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Actresses |
ISBN | 9780747531579 |
A story of Venice today and Venice in its illustrious past, this novel gives the reader a portrait of the modern-day film world and a clue to the passions behind Shakespeare's most enigmatic work. Jessica Pruitt, a Hollywood actress in her forties has come to Venice to judge the film festival.
Vendela in Venice
Title | Vendela in Venice PDF eBook |
Author | Christina Björk |
Publisher | R & S Books |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN |
On a visit to Venice with her father, Vendela experiences the richness and beauty of the city and its palaces, gondolas and statues. Color illustrations throughout.
Daughter of Venice
Title | Daughter of Venice PDF eBook |
Author | Holly S. Hurlburt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
ISBN | 9780300209723 |
Caterina Corner, a Venetian noblewoman and the last Queen of Cyprus, led a complex and remarkable life. In 1468, Corner married King Jacques II Lusignan of Cyprus at the behest of her family, whose ambitions matched those of the Venetian republic anxious to extend its empire. In the first year of her reign, pregnant and widowed, she became regent for the kingdom. This study considers for the first time the strategies of her reign, negotiating Venetian encroachment, family pressures, and the challenges of female rule. Using previously understudied sources, such as her correspondence with Venetian magistracies, the book shows how Corner marshalled her royal authority until and beyond her forced abdication in 1489. The unique perspective of Corner's life reveals new insights into Renaissance imperialism, politics, familial ambition, and conventions of ideal womanhood as revealed in the portraits, poetry, and orations dedicated to her.
Daughter of Xanadu
Title | Daughter of Xanadu PDF eBook |
Author | Dori Jones Yang |
Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2011-01-11 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0375897275 |
Athletic and strong willed, Princess Emmajin's determined to do what no woman has done before: become a warrior in the army of her grandfather, the Great Khan Khubilai. In the Mongol world the only way to achieve respect is to show bravery and win glory on the battlefield. The last thing she wants is the distraction of the foreigner Marco Polo, who challenges her beliefs in the gardens of Xanadu. Marco has no skills in the "manly arts" of the Mongols: horse racing, archery, and wrestling. Still, he charms the Khan with his wit and story-telling. Emmajin sees a different Marco as they travel across 13th-century China, hunting 'dragons' and fighting elephant-back warriors. Now she faces a different battle as she struggles with her attraction towards Marco and her incredible goal of winning fame as a soldier.