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  • Histoire du carnaval de Venise

  • Histoire du carnaval de Venise 

  • Gilles Bertrand 
  • Sodis 
  • 120x180 mm
    Pages: 224
    Paperback 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9791021021617 
  • Ona tendanceaujourd’huià associeraucarnavaldeVeniseuneimage figéequinous aurait été léguée parleXVIIIesiècle. Pourtantl’histoiredecemoment festif est beaucoup plus longueet complexe.Aucarnaval civiquedestiné à... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 16.00 
  • The Violinist of Venice

  • The Violinist of Venice 

  • Alyssa Palombo 
  • St. Martin Press 
  • Paperback: 448 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781250071491 
  • Like most 18th century Venetians, Adriana d'Amato adores music-except her strict merchant father has forbidden her to cultivate her gift for the violin. But she refuses to let that stop her from living her dreams and begins sneaking out of her family's palazzo under the cover of night to take violin... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 9.00 
  • Donna Leon - Quietly in Their Sleep

  • Donna Leon - Quietly in Their Sleep 

  • Donna Leon 
  • Grove Press 
  • Paperback
    272 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780802123824 
  • In the sixth book featuring Donna Leon’s ever-charming and sympathetic protagonist, Commissario Guido Brunetti comes to the aid of a young nursing sister who has had five patients unexpectedly die and decides to leave her convent. In the course of his inquiries, Brunetti encounters an unusual... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 9.00 
  • Donna Leon - Fatal Remedies

  • Donna Leon - Fatal Remedies 

  • Donna Leon 
  • Grove Press 
  • 270 pages
    Paperback 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780802124364 
  • When Commissario Guido Brunetti gets an early morning phone call that a sudden act of vandalism has just been committed, he soon discovers that the perpetrator is no petty criminal, but Paola Brunetti, his wife. 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 10.00 
  • The Serpent of Venice: A Novel

  • The Serpent of Venice: A Novel 

  • Christopher Moore 
  • William Morrow 
  • Paperback
    352 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780061779770 
  • New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore channels William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe in The Serpent of Venice, a satiric Venetian gothic that brings back the Pocket of Dog Snogging, the eponymous hero of Fool, along with his sidekick, Drool, and pet monkey, Jeff. Venice, a long... 
  • STATO: OS - Ordinabile
  • € 9.50 
  • Venice: A Cultural and Literary Companion

  • Venice: A Cultural and Literary Companion 

  • Martin Garrett 
  • Interlink Publishing Group 
  • Paperback
    243 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781566563697 
  • Garrett explores the extraordinary history, art, and architecture of Venice and the islands of the lagoon. Looking at the legacy of the city's Jewish, Greek, Slav, and Armenian minorities, he recalls the exploits of such legendary figures as Casanova and Byron. Maps and illustrations. 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 18.00 
  • Italian Venice: A History

  • Italian Venice: A History 

  • R. J. B. Bosworth 
  • Yale University Press 
  • Paperback
    352 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780300216127 
  • In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice--not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalor of the belle epoque and the dark underbelly of modernization,... 
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  • € 24.50 
  • Miss Garnet s Angel*

  • Miss Garnet s Angel* 

  • Salley Vickers 
  • Paperback: 340 pages
    Publisher: Plume Books
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780142180563 
  • After the death of her longtime friend and flatmate, retired British history teacher Julia Garnet does something completely out of character: She takes a six-month rental on a modest apartment in Venice. She befriends a young Italian boy and English twins who are restoring a fourteenth-century... 
  • STATO: In Commercio
  • € 8.00 
  • The Venetian Bargain

  • The Venetian Bargain 

  • Fiorato, Marina 
  • St. Martin Press 
  • Hardcover
    Pages: 407 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9781250042958 
  • 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... 
  • STATO: OS - Ordinabile
  • € 9.50 
  • My Venice and Other Essays

  • My Venice and Other Essays 

  • Donna Leon 
  • Hardcover
    240 pages
    Language: English 
  • ISBN / Barcode: 9780802120366 
  • Donna Leon has won a huge number of passionate fans and a tremendous amount of critical acclaim for her international bestselling mystery series featuring Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti. These accolades have built up not just for her intricate plots and gripping narratives, but for her insight... 
  • STATO: OS - Ordinabile
  • € 14.50 

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