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Tigress Of Forli
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Author : Elizabeth Lev
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-10-01
Tigress Of Forli written by Elizabeth Lev and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
If I were to write the story of my life it would shock the world', Caterina Sforza, 1463-1509. As action packed as as a Game of Thrones novel, the complete life of one of Italy's most fearless women. Between her birth in 1463 as the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, and her death in 1509 as a member of the powerful Medici family, the life of Caterina Sforza crossed the firmament of Renaissance Italy like a shooting star. She was painted by Botticelli, feted by Pope Sixtus IV, slandered by Macchiavelli and celebrated as a warrior who led her own troops fearlessly into battle. While defending her fortress city-state of Forli, she was prepared to sacrifice her children rather than surrender – yet she was eventually defeated, imprisoned and raped by a Borgia. Caterina Sforza bore 8 children, buried 3 husbands, and wrote a recipe book that has since been through more than 100 editions. Her youngest child became, like his mother, a brilliant soldier and a national hero. But not even the determined Caterina could have planned that her son's direct descendants would include the kings of France and of England... Or that she herself would be reborn 600 years later as the kick-ass lead character in the multimillion-selling videogame Assassin's Creed.
Kate Caterina
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Author : William Riviere
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2003-02
Kate Caterina written by William Riviere and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02 with Fiction categories.
Chosen as Book of the Year in London by both the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Kate Caterina is a passionate love story and a heartbreaking saga of a family torn apart by war, situated against a canvas of Italy during World War II. Brilliantly linking the atmosphere of war-torn Europe and a palpable love for Italy and its people, Riviere tells the story of Kate Fenn, a great English beauty who marries a young left-wing Italian doctor and moves to Tuscany, where she relishes the countryside splendor and the strong ties her new family has. She changes her name to Kate Caterina to unite her internationally conflicted sides, but soon finds herself isolated inside Nazi-Fascist Europe with a family completely torn apart by politics. Captivating from the first pages to the unforgettable end, Kate Caterina is the story of a family and a nation traumatized, of loyalty and betrayal, and of Caterina's effort to retain an inner freedom in a country at war. "A masterpiece of a tour through Mussolini's Italy." -- Scott Bernard Nelson, The Boston Globe "Kate Caterina belongs in the great tradition of the European novel." -- The Sunday Telegraph "[The] central characterizations ... diverse places of the heart and mind ... is strong enough to make this novel a remarkable achievement." -- The Spectator
Caterina The Clever Farm Girl
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language : en
Publisher: Dial
Release Date : 1996
Caterina The Clever Farm Girl written by and has been published by Dial this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Fairy tales categories.
In this Tuscan folktale, a poor farmer's daughter becomes queen by charming the king with her wit and ingenuity.
The Tigress Of Forl
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Author : Elizabeth Lev
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2011
The Tigress Of Forl written by Elizabeth Lev and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A Rome-based American historian tells the extraordinary story of Caterina Sforza, perhaps the most prominent woman of Renaissance Italy, who was a wife, a mother, a leader, and a warrior with the courage to battle a Borgia pope, the charm to beguile a Medici husband, and the fierceness to make Machiavelli himself wince.
The Love And Death Of Caterina
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Author : Andrew Nicoll
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-04-28
The Love And Death Of Caterina written by Andrew Nicoll and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-28 with Fiction categories.
Caterina is beautiful, sensuous, gifted - a woman alive with possibility. When she walks into a room, no one can look away. Luciano Valdez - celebrated writer and respected university lecturer whose life is teetering on the edge of despair - believes Caterina to be the most astonishing woman he has ever met. Convinced she will reignite his life and work, Luciano finds himself falling in love with her, with devastating consequences ...
Caterina Sforza And The Art Of Appearances
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Author : Joyce de Vries
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Caterina Sforza And The Art Of Appearances written by Joyce de Vries and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Art categories.
In the first major book in four decades on Caterina Sforza (1463-1509), Joyce de Vries investigates the famous noblewoman's cultural endeavors, and explores the ways in which gender, culture, and consumption practices were central to the invention of the self in early modern Italy. Sforza commissioned elaborate artistic and architectural works, participated in splendid civic and religious rituals, and collected a dazzling array of clothing, jewelry, and household goods. By engaging in these realms of cultural production, de Vries suggests, Sforza manipulated masculine and feminine norms of behavior and effectively promoted her social and political agendas. Drawing on visual evidence, inventories, letters, and contemporary texts, de Vries offers a penetrating new interpretation of women's contributions to early modern culture. She explains the correlations between prescriptive literature and women's actions and reveals the mutability of gender roles in the princely courts. De Vries's analysis of Sforza's posthumous legend suggests that what we see as "the Renaissance" was as much a historical invention as a coherent moment in historical time.
Caterina
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Author : Patricia Paris
language : en
Publisher: BHC Press/Windswept
Release Date : 2018-12-04
Caterina written by Patricia Paris and has been published by BHC Press/Windswept this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-04 with Fiction categories.
Destiny is impossible to escape... Caterina Bonavera had a solid plan. To move up the line from sous chef at one of New York City's top restaurants and then open one of her own. Moving back to Virginia to help her sisters run the family winery had been nowhere on her radar. But neither had landing the head chef's job at a popular local restaurant upon her return, only to find herself unemployed again after three years; nor getting romantically involved with a man who proved her ability to judge one's character hadn't gotten any better than her ability to fly by flapping her arms. Caterina's confident she'll get her life back on track with Serendipity, the boutique hotel and restaurant she and her oldest sister Lucia were opening at the end of the summer, but that's almost a year away, and meanwhile, she's forced to deal with Liam Dougherty, the surly contractor building the restaurant of Caterina's dreams. Liam gets along fine with everyone else, but it's clear to Caterina that he's disliked her since their first meeting, and she has no idea why. To complicate their already tentative working relationship, Caterina begins to develop an unwanted attraction to Liam. She tries to counter it by avoiding him, but then she discovers something that changes her opinion of him completely, and along with it, her desire for the one thing she wants most in her life. Will trusting Liam turn out to be another mistake when it comes to the men in her life, or have her prior mistakes been leading her to him all along?
Caterina S Renaissance
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Author : Christa Bedwin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-06-10
Caterina S Renaissance written by Christa Bedwin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-10 with categories.
Caterina has finally found a small, peaceful island where she can raise sheep, illustrate children's books, and hide away. Then Massimo, the sexy hero she dreams of, drops out of the Renaissance into her modern-day reality. He and her unexpectedly magical neighbours help her understand that there's a dragon living on her property, and that she herself is a key to help to save the island from a modern villainess. Massimo and Caterina end up in Renaissance Venice, trying to find the treasure they need to save the island. Travelling centuries into the past with Massimo helps Caterina find solutions she did not expect!
Caterina Edwards
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Author : Joseph Pivato
language : en
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Release Date : 2000
Caterina Edwards written by Joseph Pivato and has been published by Guernica Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With the publication of The Lion's Mouth in 1982, Caterina Edwards made her mark as a novelist. Edward's works include short stories, novellas and a play and explore questions of identity for men and women. This is the first book on her literary achievement.
Caterina Cornaro
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Author : Candida Syndikus
language : en
Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
Release Date : 2013
Caterina Cornaro written by Candida Syndikus and has been published by Waxmann Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
Caterina Cornaro (1454-1510) came from one of the most important Venetian families of her time and became the last queen of Cyprus. On the occasion of the fifth centenary of her death, an international conference was held in Venice in September 2010 - organised by the two editors of this volume. During that interdisciplinary event, well-known scholars from the fields of history, art history, literary history, archaeology, Byzantine studies and musicology presented the results of their most recent research across a broad subject area. The queen's biography and myth were traced, as well as the reception of this historical figure in art and on stage. Stress was laid upon socioeconomic and cultural phenomena resulting from the close contact between Venice and Cyprus during the Renaissance period, and also in focus was the literary production at Caterina's court 'in exile' in Venice and the neighbouring mainland. The present volume offers a collection of the conference's papers. The book contains the papers (in Italian, English and French) by / Il volume contiene i contributi (in lingua italiana, inglese e francese) di Monica Molteni, Candida Syndikus, Martin Gaier, Ursula Schadler-Saub, Lina Bolzoni, Rotraud von Kulessa, Tobias Leuker, Daria Perocco, Benjamin Arbel, Gilles Grivaud, Catherine Otten-Froux, Chryssa Maltezou, Tassos Papacostas, Lorenzo Calvelli, David Michael Metcalf, Arnold Jacobshagen, Angel Nicolaou-Konnari. Caterina Cornaro (1454-1510) venne da una delle più importanti famiglie veneziane del suo tempo e diventò l'ultima regina di Cipro. In occasione del quinto centenario della sua scomparsa si è tenuto in settembre 2010 un Convegno Internazionale di Studi, organizzato dalle due curatrici di questo volume. Autorevoli specialisti nei campi della storia, storia dell'arte, storia della letteratura, archeologia, musicologia e degli studi bizantini hanno presentato - in un'ottica interdisciplinare - le loro ricerche più recenti su un vasto ambito tematico. Questi atti ne raccolgono i risultati. Si ripercorre la biografia e il mito della regina Cornaro nonché la ricezione della figura storica nell'arte e sul palcoscenico. Vengono inoltre messi in risalto vari fenomeni socioeconomici e culturali nello stretto contatto tra Venezia e Cipro durante il periodo del Rinascimento. Infine, viene presa in considerazione la produzione letteraria alla sua corte 'in esilio' a Venezia e in Terraferma.