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The secret book of Grazia dei Rossi : a novel / Jacqueline Park.
LIBRA - Special PS3566.A6735 S4 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Park, Jacqueline.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Italy--Fiction.
- Women.
- Italy.
- Jewish women--Fiction.
- Jewish women.
- European fiction--Renaissance, 1450-1600.
- European fiction.
- European fiction--Renaissance.
- Italy--Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Jewish fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- Historical fiction.
- Jewish fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Jewish fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 572 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner paperback Fiction edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1998.
- Summary:
- In 16th century Italy, Grazia dei Rossi, daughter of a Jewish banker falls in love with a Christian nobleman, but is rejected by his family. She marries a Jewish doctor, the marriage lacks passion and when she has a child it is by the nobleman.
- Contents:
- Prologue 9
- Grazia's Book 13
- Mantova 17
- Ferrara 57
- Bologna 105
- Mantova Revisited 137
- Firenze 215
- Mantova Again 279
- Venezia 395
- Roma 437
- Epilogue The Sack 521
- Author's Notes 561
- The Isabella/Pacienza Letters 565
- The Family Trees 568.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Park, Jacqueline. Secret book of Grazia dei Rossi.
- ISBN:
- 0684848406
- 9780684848402
- 0684816032
- 9780684816036
- OCLC:
- 36621708
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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