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"A captivating new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels have made her one of America's favorite storytellers. After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family's haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the four-hundred-year-old family palazzo in Venice and care for her...
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California studies in the history of art volume 29
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
©1993
Physical Desc
xxix, 445 pages, [31] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xviii, 297 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At the end of the nineteenth century, a remarkable group of artists, writers, and patrons gathered regularly at the Palazzo Barbaro, a magnificent residence on the Grand Canal in Venice. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a product of Isabella Gardner's rich experiences in Venice as a resident of the Palazzo Barbaro."--BOOK JACKET.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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In an ancient Venetian palazzo, Urbino Macintyre encounters a decades-old murder The Contessa da Capo-Zendrini is one of the leading lights of Venice society, but there is one house where she has long been unwelcome. Her late husband's family, the Zenos, has loathed her since the 1930s, when a gathering at her palazzo ended in tragedy. Decades later, she hits on a devilish plan to make amends: inviting the Zeno clan over for a house party to make...
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
From village feasts and rustic tavernas to ancient piazzas and moonlit balconies, the smells and tastes and sounds and soul of Umbria come alive in bestselling author Marlena de Blasi's evocative memoir.By turns romantic and sensual, joyous and celebratory, touching and humorous, Marlena de Blasi's account of moving with her husband, Fernando, to Orvieto, the largest city in Italy's Umbria, will appeal to anyone who delights in travel and shares the...
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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"This is my only story. Now that I am sixty I can tell it." He, the narrator, was a twenty-one-year-old art student traveling the world. She was a countess - apparently cold, haughty, and inaccessible - traveling with Haroun, her ambiguous companion. When the young man makes their acquaintance at a hotel in Sicily, he finds himself filled with unexpected lust and playing a part in something he doesn't quite understand. Filled with Theroux's typically...
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Thames & Hudson Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
408 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Venier family waned and the project was abandoned with only one storey complete. Empty, unfinished, and in a gradual state of decay, the building was considered an eyesore. Yet in the early 20th century the Unfinished Palazzo's quality of fairytale abandonment, and its potential for transformation, were to...
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Marsilio
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
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287 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
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English
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"The relationship American impressionist painters had with Italy, particularly with Florence, was very intense between the mid nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth. After the Civil War, hundreds of painters came to Italy. Florence, Venice and Rome had by long tradition been the centre of the Grand Tour and were places made legendary by those who wanted to know and study the art of the past, while also exercising a powerful fascination...
10) Sharks
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Troll Communications
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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English
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Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents an introduction to the Ojibwe Indian tribe of the Midwest U.S., including information on their history, culture, and daily life, as well as describing their encounters with Europeans.
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2023.
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English
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"A deeply evocative portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself. By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of old masters, antiques, and objects d'art, she was already well-known for scandalizing Boston's polite society. But when Isabella first arrives in Boston in 1861,...
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"In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon's bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti's own youthful past helps solve a mysterious murder. On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice's canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A novel set in Renaissance Italy, and centering on the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici"--
"Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and to devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia...
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Publisher
Monacelli Press
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Author Kent Larson has delved into Kahn's extensive archives to construct faithful computer models of a series of proposals the architect was not able to build: the U.S. Consulate in Luanda, Angola; the Meeting House of the Salk Institute in La Jolla; the Mikveh Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia; the Memorial to Six Million Jewish Martyrs in New York City; three proposals for the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem; and the Palazzo dei Congressi in Venice.
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20) Acqua alta
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English
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Venetian detective Guido Brunetti swings into action when the curator of Venice's most prestigious museum turns up dead, bludgeoned by a priceless artifact, and an American archaeologist and close friend narrowly escapes the killer.
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