The Eyes of Venice - Softcover

Barbero, Alessandro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609450825 ISBN 13: 9781609450823

Publisher: Europa Editions, 2013

Synopsis

Venice at the end of the 1500s is an unforgiving city. The Doge rules with an iron fist and the Holy Office harbours suspicions about everything and everyone. The Republic watches and listens, then passes judgment swiftly. Michele, a young stonemason, has been accused of a crime he didn't commit. Afraid for his life, he flees the city aboard a galley carrying gold coin, leaving behind his young wife, Bianca. Banished from his home, Michele embarks on an adventure around the Mediterranean whilst Bianca is forced to survive alone in a dangerous city.

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Praise for The Eyes of Venice

"Quite simply an extraordinarily beautiful book."--WUZ

"A love story, a war story, a story of hope, a story about encountering the Muslim world. in short, an adventure story."--Panorama

"Unexpected twists and remarkable encounters, good guys and bad guys, love and adventure, all in the best tradition of dramatic storytelling. With one extra ingredient: intelligent--it might be more accurate to say 'perfect'--reconstruction of the historical setting."--Corriere della Sera

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Europa Editions
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1609450825
• ISBN 13: 9781609450823
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448