Maddalena and the Dark
Maddalena and the Dark

Author: Julia Fine

Publisher: Flatiron Books

Published: 2023-06-13

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1250867886

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“[A] beguiling fairy tale.” —Vanity Fair (A Best Book of Summer) “Enchanted...A slow-burn gothic novel that will make you lose track of your surroundings...An atmospheric banger.” —LitHub Venice, 1717. Fifteen-year-old Luisa has only wanted one thing: to be the best at violin. As a student at the Ospedale della Pietà, she hopes to join the highest ranks of its illustrious girls’ orchestra and become a protégé of the great Antonio Vivaldi. Luisa is good at violin, but she is not the best. She has peers, but she does not have friends. Until Maddalena. After a scandal threatens her noble family’s reputation, Maddalena is sent to the Pietà to preserve her marriage prospects. When she meets Luisa, Maddalena feels the stirrings of a friendship unlike anything she has known. But Maddalena has a secret: she has hatched a dangerous plot to rescue her future her own way. When she invites Luisa into her plans, promising to make her dreams come true, Luisa doesn’t hesitate. But every wager has its price, and as the girls are drawn into the decadent world outside the Pietà’s walls, they must decide what it is they truly want—and what they will do to pay for it. Lush and heady, swirling with music and magic, Maddalena and the Dark is a Venetian fairytale about the friendship between two girls and the boundless desire that will set them free, if it doesn’t consume them first.

Maria Maddalena De' Pazzi
Maria Maddalena De' Pazzi

Author: Clare Copeland

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0198785380

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This study considers the campaigns for and trials resulting in the beatification and subsequent canonization of the Florentine mystic nun, Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607). It explores the politics of saint-making at a time of particular significance for the history of Roman Catholic canonization.

Maddalena
Maddalena

Author: Laura Orsolini

Publisher:

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781772290073

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Claudia s best friend is her doll, Maddalena, and they are never apart. Maddalena is very brave, but sometimes she gets scared especially when Mom and Dad have to be away for awhile, so Claudia lets her climb into bed with her for comfort. One day, however, the whole family goes on a trip together and they forget Maddalena at home Claudia isn t afraid, of course, she s only worried for poor Maddalena What can she do? This gorgeous picture book, featuring vintage-style illustrations from Italian artist Laura Orsolini, reminds us that it s never easy to be away from the ones we love, no matter what our age or circumstances."

Historical Anthology of Music by Women
Historical Anthology of Music by Women

Author: James R. Briscoe

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780253212962

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Works by women composers, including Francesca Caccini, Fanny Mendelssohn, Ethel Smyth, [et al]

Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen
Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen

Author: Elsie Arnold

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Until recently, Maddalena Lombardini Sirmen was recognized mainly as a violin pupil of Giuseppe Tartini. After years of extensive research, Elsie Arnold and Jane Baldauf-Berdes prove the inaccuracy of this depiction. A composer in her own right, Sirmen was also an astute businesswoman who efficiently managed her own life, concert engagements, and finances. This volume is a necessary addition to music and women's studies collections alike.

Dolphin Confidential
Dolphin Confidential

Author: Maddalena Bearzi

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-03-05

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0226040186

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A “compelling” up-close memoir of a career spent among marine mammals and a portrait of the daily lives of dolphins (Publishers Weekly). Working among charismatic and clever dolphins in the wild is a unique thrill—and this book invites us shore-bound dreamers to join Maddalena Bearzi as she travels alongside them. In a fascinating account, she takes us inside the world of a marine scientist and offers a firsthand understanding of marine mammal behavior, as well as the frustrations and delights that make up dolphin research. Bearzi recounts her experiences at sea, tracing her own evolution as a woman and a scientist from her earliest travails to her transformation into an advocate for conservation and dolphin protection. These compelling, in-depth descriptions of her fieldwork also present a captivating look into dolphin social behavior and intelligence. Drawing on her extensive experience with the metropolitan bottlenose dolphins of California in particular, she offers insights into the daily lives of these creatures—as well as the difficulties involved in collecting the data that transforms hunches into hypotheses and eventually scientific facts. The book closes by addressing the critical environmental and conservation problems facing these magnificent, socially complex, highly intelligent, and emotional beings. “Pairing vivid images of bottlenose dolphins swimming together and caring for one another with descriptions of the meticulous scientific work required to record their behavior, Maddalena Bearzi sheds light on the life of a field biologist…A beautifully written account.”—Library Journal

Beautiful Minds
Beautiful Minds

Author: Maddalena Bearzi

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0674033795

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Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any creatures appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side, Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B. Stanford, a dolphin biologist and a primatologist who have spent their careers studying these animals in the wild, combine their insights with compelling results. Beautiful Minds explains how and why apes and dolphins are so distantly related yet so cognitively alike and what this teaches us about another large-brained mammal: Homo sapiens. Noting that apes and dolphins have had no common ancestor in nearly 100 million years, Bearzi and Stanford describe the parallel evolution that gave rise to their intelligence. And they closely observe that intelligence in action, in the territorial grassland and rainforest communities of chimpanzees and other apes, and in groups of dolphins moving freely through open coastal waters. The authors detail their subjects’ ability to develop family bonds, form alliances, and care for their young. They offer an understanding of their culture, politics, social structure, personality, and capacity for emotion. The resulting dual portrait—with striking overlaps in behavior—is key to understanding the nature of “beautiful minds.”