Download or read book A Vixen in Venice written by Kate Deveaux and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's an art thief on the run—with her heart. Look closer, into Totally Five Star Venice, where art curator Monique LeBres has just walked through the doors of the newly opened, swanky luxury hotel to assist with their art collection. Alessandro Bonnard, the world-renowned art connoisseur and collector, has been sent incognito to supervise Monique and oversee her acquisitions for the hotel. Concealing his true identity, Alessandro is intrigued by the art-loving vixen with an appetite for kinky sex. He pursues Monique, charming her at every turn, taking her to places she's never been—both in and out of the bedroom. Monique falls hard for the man who has utterly captured her heart, only to find out he isn't who she thought he was.

Download or read book The Venetian Vixen written by Judith Falcon and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Reid, a jaded young American travels to the continent to put some much needed spice into his life he did not imagine he would find it in the guise of his best friend’s sister. But the black-haired beauty intrigues him from the moment they met. When Valentina decides to indulge her senses before her wedding to a man chosen by her brother she didn’t think she would actually end up falling for the scandalous rogue who sends her blood on fire. But the man is just too irresistible. From the rolling hills of Rome to the Grand Canal in Venice, they will have to accept that a week of passion can never be enough for them…

Download or read book A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature written by Gordon Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-09-13 with total page 1650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.

Download or read book Goldoni and the Venice of His Time written by Joseph Spencer Kennard and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Venice s Virgin Mother written by Berwyn Lewis and published by Berwyn Lewis. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 17th century Venice a young woman discovers she's pregnant and comes up with a perfect alibi. She claims she's had an immaculate conception and will have a virgin birth but this doesn't stop her family from banishing her to a convent. Like many convents of the time it is home to one of Venice's worst-kept secrets. Behind its forbidding looking walls, veils and vows do nothing to curb the appetites of the lusty residents – including some men. Disguised as nuns, they enjoy the lavish banquets and balls of convent life with their lovers, liberated women who have the freedom to compose music, plays and poetry, often penned with male pseudonyms and performed to audiences from all walks of life. The Doge supports a Venetian virgin birth. It will rock religious boats (and gondolas), strike a blow against Rome's monopoly on virgin births, boost Venetian Empire trade and bring the world to Venice's doorstep. It isn't the first virgin birth. The twin founders of Rome were born of the mythical Rhea Silvia, a virgin. It had to be just a matter of time before another one popped up and this time it's in Venice and the Doge is all for it. Too dangerous to reveal until now, this satire and rollicking comedy tells how women struggled with families, husbands and other enemies, and were dominated by an overzealous church bent on robbing them of their birthright. It is also a useful virgin birth DIY and includes tips on creating miracles. It speaks to today's world where religion and other superstitions continue to oppress so many and cause so much suffering.

Download or read book MASQUERADE IN VENICE written by VELDA JOHNSTON and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Salty Vixen s Loverotica 27 Romance Erotica Stories written by Salty Vixen and published by Salty Vixen Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passion between the sheets… Shhh! I’ve got a story to tell you… It’s even better when you’re close enough for me to whisper it to you. Are you ready to create the ultimate sultry seduction? Loverotica is your perfect blend of passion and love. The tales between these pages are guaranteed to light the spark of your passionate creativity! Salty Vixen’s Loverotica collection (fresh stories in this book- free stories on our Loverotica page: https://www.saltyvixenstories.com/loverotica/) On Salty VIxen’s Loverotica, we have romance and more! Depending on what your desire is… between these pages, is romance + erotica which makes it Loverotica!

Download or read book The Lost Diary of Venice written by Margaux DeRoux and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two impossible love stories are fatefully connected by one artistic legacy in a stunning debut that leaps between the mysteries of late-Renaissance Venice and the dramas of present-day America. “Enchanting from the first page.”—Sarah Jio, New York Times bestselling author of All the Flowers in Paris In the wake of her father’s death, Rose Newlin finds solace in her work as a book restorer. Then, one rainy Connecticut afternoon, a struggling painter appears at her door. William Lomazzo brings with him a sixteenth-century treatise on art, which Rose quickly identifies as a palimpsest: a document written over a hidden diary that had purposely been scraped away. Yet the restoration sparks an unforeseen challenge when William—a married man—and Rose experience an instant, unspoken attraction. Five centuries earlier, Renaissance-era Venetians find themselves at the mercy of an encroaching Ottoman fleet preparing for a bloody war. Giovanni Lomazzo, a portrait artist grappling with tragedy, discovers that his vision is fading with each passing day. Facing the possibility of a completely dark world, Gio begins to document his every encounter, including what may be his final artistic feat: a commission to paint the enchanting courtesan of one of Venice’s most powerful military commanders. Soon, however, Gio finds himself enraptured by a magnificent forbidden love. Spellbound by Gio’s revelations, Rose and William are soon forced to confront the reality of their own mystifying connection. A richly detailed page-turner shadowed by one of history’s darkest times, The Lost Diary of Venice weaves a heartbreakingly vivid portrait of two vastly different worlds—and two tales of entrancing, unrelenting love.

Download or read book The Assassin of Venice written by Alyssa Palombo and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Renaissance courtesan must choose between love and duty in this high stakes 16th-century mystery, perfect for fans of Madeline Hunter and Rhys Bowen. Valentina Riccardi is many things: beautiful, cultured, deadly. As one of Venice’s famous courtesans, she’s perfectly positioned to seduce powerful men, get them alone, and assassinate them. Spies. Traitors. Who they are doesn’t matter—only that they made an enemy of the Council of Ten, the shadowy and seemingly omniscient power from which Valentina takes her orders without question. Venice is her home, and after losing everything once before to an invading army, there is nothing she won’t do to protect her city, for there is nothing she loves more. Almost nothing. She vowed to never fall in love again, but Valentina can’t help but give her heart to Bastiano Bragadin, a fellow assassin. But when Bastiano starts asking the wrong questions, Valentina receives a new assignment: kill him. Yet the more Valentina learns about the Council of Ten, the more she wonders if they are truly acting in the interest of the Venetian state, or using her for their own dark ambitions. If Valentina is to save Bastiano, she must untangle their conspiracy—with the help of her fellow courtesans—before it’s too late. The Assassin of Venice is a captivating, sensual, high stakes read that brings 16th-century Venice to life, and draws on the fascinating real history of both Venetian cortigiane oneste—“honest courtesans”—and Renaissance Venice’s sprawling intelligence service.

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science Art and Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book LADY of VENICE written by Siobhan Daiko and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two women separated by time, but united by passion and art. In 1504, Cecilia, a lady of Venice, joins the court of Queen Caterina Cornaro-- where she catches the eye of a powerful stranger who will stop at nothing to make her his. Summer 1989, and Fern, on vacation in Italy to deal with a personal trauma, finds herself pulled back to the sixteenth century to be drawn inescapably into Cecilia's life. Intrigue and romance flourish at the Queen's court as Cecilia embarks on a passionate but ill-fated affair with a penniless painter. Luca, a twentieth century Italian architect, notices a resemblance between Fern and the girl in a painting by the artist, Giorgione. He helps Fern cope with her visions while falling increasingly under her spell. Echoes of the past begin to manifest themselves in the present through a series of startling coincidences, until past and present collide-- throwing both Fern and Cecilia into deathly danger. Can Fern stay safe and come to terms with her own past? This book was previously published as "Lady of Asolo".

Download or read book The Vixen written by Francine Prose and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR, The Washington Post, and Financial Times “No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more uncomfortably than Francine Prose . . . The gift of her work to a reader is to create for us what she creates for her protagonist: the subtle unfolding, the moment-by-moment process of discovery as we read and change, from not knowing and even not wanting to know or care, to seeing what we had not seen and finding our way to the light of the ending.”—Amy Bloom, New York Times Book Review "Depending on the light, it’s either a very funny serious story or a very serious funny story. But no matter how you turn it, The Vixen offers an illuminating reflection on the slippery nature of truth in America, then and now."—Washington Post Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose returns with a dazzling new novel set in the glamorous world of 1950s New York publishing, the story of a young man tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg—an assignment that will reveal the true cost of entering that seductive, dangerous new world. It’s 1953, and Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate newly hired by a distinguished New York publishing firm, has entered a glittering world of three-martini lunches, exclusive literary parties, and old-money aristocrats in exquisitely tailored suits, a far cry from his loving, middle-class Jewish family in Coney Island. But Simon’s first assignment—editing The Vixen, the Patriot and the Fanatic, a lurid bodice-ripper improbably based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, a potboiler intended to shore up the firm’s failing finances—makes him question the cost of admission. Because Simon has a secret that, at the height of the Red Scare and the McCarthy hearings, he cannot reveal: his beloved mother was a childhood friend of Ethel Rosenberg’s. His parents mourn Ethel’s death. Simon’s dilemma grows thornier when he meets The Vixen’s author, the startlingly beautiful, reckless, seductive Anya Partridge, ensconced in her opium-scented boudoir in a luxury Hudson River mental asylum. As mysteries deepen, as the confluence of sex, money, politics and power spirals out of Simon’s control, he must face what he’s lost by exchanging the loving safety of his middle-class Jewish parents’ Coney Island apartment for the witty, whiskey-soaked orbit of his charismatic boss, the legendary Warren Landry. Gradually Simon realizes that the people around him are not what they seem, that everyone is keeping secrets, that ordinary events may conceal a diabolical plot—and that these crises may steer him toward a brighter future. At once domestic and political, contemporary and historic, funny and heartbreaking, enlivened by surprising plot turns and passages from Anya’s hilariously bad novel, The Vixen illuminates a period of history with eerily striking similarities to the current moment. Meanwhile it asks timeless questions: How do we balance ambition and conscience? What do social mobility and cultural assimilation require us to sacrifice? How do we develop an authentic self, discover a vocation, and learn to live with the mysteries of love, family, art, life and loss?

Download or read book The Golden Book of Venice written by Francese Hubbard Litchfield Turnbull and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Golden Book of Venice written by Lawrence Mrs. Turnbull and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Golden Book of Venice by Lawrence Mrs. Turnbull is a historical romance about the Venetians taking place during the late 1500s. Turnbull writes about the affairs of Venice at a time of great political turmoil. Excerpt: "Sea and sky were one glory of warmth and color this sunny November morning in 1565, and there were signs of unusual activity in the Campo San Rocco before the great church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, which, if only brick without, was all glorious within, "in raiment of needlework" and "wrought gold." And outside, the delicate tracery of the cornice was like a border of embroidery upon the somber surface; the sculptured marble doorway was of surpassing richness, and the airy grace of the campanile detached itself against the entrancing blue of the sky, as one of those points of beauty for which Venice is memorable."

Download or read book Fox River written by Emilie Richards and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-11-12 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daughter of a legendary Virginia hunt masterand aristocrat, Julia Warwick grew up in a world whereThoroughbreds and foxhunting are passions, not pastimes.Julia finds her own passion in Christian Carver, a talentedyoung horse trainer. But when a beautiful heiress is murderedand Christian is convicted of the crime, a pregnant, desperateJulia marries a friend who offers solace.Now, though blindness darkens her world, it opens her eyesto hidden truths. About her husband, her family, her friendsand the man she loved. And as the story starts to emerge,a forgotten memory begins to return, a mystery comes tolight…and two lovers torn apart by forces they couldn'tcontrol face each other once and for all.

Download or read book The Golden Book of Venice written by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: