Alessandro Barbero

The Eyes of Venice

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A young Venetian man and woman face hardship and high seas adventure across the Mediterranean in this prize-winning novel set during the Renaissance.Venice of the late sixteenth century is an unforgiving city. The Doge rules with an iron fist and the Holy Office of Inquisition harbors suspicions about everything and everyone. It is a place where even the walls have eyes. So when a recently married stonemason by the name of Michele is accused of a crime he didn't commit, he flees for his life aboard a galley-leaving behind his young wife, Bianca.Determined to clear his name and return to his love, Michele embarks on extraordinary adventures as… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Conti, Gregory (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-60945-851-5
EAN: 9781609458515
Produktnummer: 17876307
Verlag: Europa Editions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 448 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'336 KB

Über den Autor

Alessandro Barbero is the author of The Battle: A New History of Waterloo (Walker & Co., 2005), and Charlamagne: Father of a Continent, and Master Pyle's Bella Vita and Other People's Wars, winner of the Strega Prize for Fiction. He is a renowned historian whose two-volume history of the Battle of Lepanto is considered to be the definitive text on the subject. He teaches Medieval History at the University of Eastern Piedmont in Vercelli, Italy.