Her Venetian Secret
Her Venetian Secret

Author: Caitlin Crews

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2024-05-21

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0369745361

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Her night with the Italian stranger was unforgettable…because she’s pregnant with his baby! USA TODAY bestselling author Caitlin Crews thrills with this one night with consequences romance. Cinderella’s night in Venice… and her nine-month surprise. Prim headmistress Beatrice hides her true self behind strict behavior and a stricter dress code. Until she abandons her usual disguise and allows herself one intoxicating night with a stranger! Except now she’s hiding the biggest secret of all… When Beatrice is hired by billionaire Cesare Chiavari to mind his half sister for the summer, she accepts. Only to discover when she arrives at the palazzo that he’s the mysterious Italian she shared one passionate night with! Worse still, while the heat between them still lingers, Cesare doesn’t recognize her at all… From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.

The Secret Messenger
The Secret Messenger

Author: Mandy Robotham

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2019-12-12

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0008324255

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The highly awaited new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The German Midwife (also published as A Woman of War).

Venice's Secret Service
Venice's Secret Service

Author: Ioanna Iordanou

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0198791313

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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.

The Secret of the Glass
The Secret of the Glass

Author: Donna Russo Morin

Publisher: Kensington Books

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0758226926

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From the author of "The Courtier's Secret" comes a dazzling historical novel that takes readers into the secret and fascinating world of the legendary Murano glassmakers in 17th-century Venice.

Venice's Secret Service
Venice's Secret Service

Author: Ioanna Iordanou

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-10-28

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0192508822

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Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a remarkable centrally-organised state intelligence organisation that played a pivotal role in the defence of the Venetian empire. Housed in the imposing Doge's Palace and under the direction of the Council of Ten, the notorious governmental committee that acted as Venice's spy chiefs, this 'proto-modern' organisation served prominent intelligence functions including operations (intelligence and covert action), analysis, cryptography and steganography, cryptanalysis, and even the development of lethal substances. Official informants and amateur spies were shipped across Europe, Anatolia, and Northern Africa, conducting Venice's stealthy intelligence operations. Revealing a plethora of secrets, their keepers, and their seekers, Venice's Secret Service explores the social and managerial processes that enabled their existence and that furnished the foundation for an extraordinary intelligence organisation created by one of the early modern world's most cosmopolitan states.

Soul of Venice
Soul of Venice

Author: Servane Giol

Publisher: Soul Of'

Published: 2020-11-07

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9782361953317

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We tried 1,000 places. And included only the 30 best. 30 unforgettable experiences that capture the soul of Venice. Every guide in the "Soul of" collection includes: - the 30 best experiences a city has to offer - interviews with those who give the city its spirit - illustrations that capture the city's soul

Hidden Voices
Hidden Voices

Author: Pat Lowery Collins

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2011-11-08

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0763656178

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While studying under Vivaldi, three girls in a Venice orphanage forge their own notions of love in a sensuous, engrossing novel told in three narrative voices. It is a longing and search for love that motivates three girls living in the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage renowned for its extraordinary musical program. But for Rosalba, Anetta, and Luisa, the love they seek is not where they expect to find it. Set in the early 1700s in the heart of Venice, this remarkable novel deftly weaves the history of Antonio Vivaldi’s early musical career into the lives of three young women who excel in voice and instrument. Under the composer’s tutelage and care, the orphans find expression, sustenance, and passion. But can the sheltered life of the orphanage prepare them for the unthinkable dangers outside its walls?

The Secret Life of Aphra Behn
The Secret Life of Aphra Behn

Author: Janet Todd

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9780813524559

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"Behn is a mass of contradictions: a high Tory who disliked traditional power structures; a powerful, autonomous woman who depended on men's approval; a woman who desired men and women and who became involved in intense political activity, yet craved case. This readable, fast-paced book uncovers Behn's assertive, duplicitous, sensual character and illustrates the openly erotic nature of her writings, her explorations of desire, sexual excitement and disappointment, which later made her a byword for lewdness. It reveals historical sources and court cases behind some of her most famous 'fictions'.".

The Venetian Bargain
The Venetian Bargain

Author: Marina Fiorato

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 125004295X

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Venice, 1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man, more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the city is infected with bubonic plague—and the Turkish Sultan has his revenge. But the ship also holds a secret stowaway—Feyra, a young and beautiful harem doctor fleeing a future as the Sultan's concubine. Only her wits and medical knowledge keep her alive as the plague ravages Venice. In despair, the Doge commissions the architect Andrea Palladio to build the greatest church of his career—an offering to God so magnificent that Venice will be saved. But Palladio's life is in danger too, and it will require all the skills of Annibale Cason, the city's finest plague doctor, to keep him alive. What Annibale had not counted on was meeting Feyra, who is now under Palladio's protection—an impossible woman whose medical skills and determination are matched only by his own. From Marina Fiorato, author of the acclaimed historical novel The Glassblower of Murano, comes a triumphant return to historical Venice with Venetian Bargain.