Marina Fiorato
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Amid the intrigue and danger of 18th-century Italy, a young woman becomes embroiled in romance and treachery with a rider in the Palio, the breathtaking horse race set in Siena...
It's 1729, and the Palio, a white-knuckle horse race, is soon to be held in the heart of the peerless Tuscan city of Siena. But the beauty and pageantry masks the deadly rivalry that exists among the city's districts. Each ward, represented by an animal symbol, puts forth...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Hidden in the language of Shakespeare's best-loved comedy Much Ado About Nothing are several clues to an intriguing tale. It seems that the witty lovers Beatrice and Benedick had a previous love affair that ended bitterly. But how did they meet? Why did they part? And what brought them together again? When nineteen year old Beatrice is brought to live at her uncle's court in Sicily to be a companion to his daughter, she first meets Benedick, a young...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The second novel from bestselling author Marina Fiorato, author of The Glassblower of Murano. The Madonna of the Almonds is set in 16th century Tuscany, as young widow Simonetta struggles to preserve her estate after the death of her husband on the battlefield.
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