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St. Martin's Griffin
April 2014
On Sale: April 8, 2014
Featuring: Feyra; Annibale Cason
416 pages
ISBN: 125004295X
EAN: 9781250042958
Kindle: B00FILHB2Q
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Historical | Fiction
Venice, 1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman
Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed
into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man, more dead than
alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He
brings a gift to Venice from Constantinople. Within days the
city is infected with bubonic plague and the Turkish Sultan
has his revenge. But the ship also holds a secret stowaway
Feyra, a young and beautiful harem doctor fleeing a future
as the Sultan's concubine. Only her wits and medical
knowledge keep her alive as the plague ravages Venice. In
despair, the Doge commissions the architect Andrea Palladio
to build the greatest church of his career an offering to
God so magnificent that Venice will be saved. But Palladio's
life is in danger too, and it will require all the skills of
Annibale Cason, the city's finest plague doctor, to keep him
alive. What Annibale had not counted on was meeting Feyra,
who is now under Palladio's protection an impossible woman
whose medical skills and determination are matched only by
his own. From Marina Fiorato, author of the acclaimed
historical novel The Glassblower of Murano, comes a
triumphant return to historical Venice with Venetian
Bargain.
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