The Venetian Bargain
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Marina Fiorato. (2014). The Venetian Bargain. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Marina Fiorato. 2014. The Venetian Bargain. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Marina Fiorato, The Venetian Bargain. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2014.

Marina Fiorato. The Venetian Bargain. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2014.

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   • bioText: Marina Fiorato is half-Venetian and a history graduate of Oxford University and the University of Venice, where she specialized in the study of Shakespeare's plays as an historical source. She has worked as an illustrator, an actress, and a film reviewer, and designed tour visuals for rock bands including U2 and the Rolling Stones. Her historical fiction includes the Venetian Bargain, The Daughter of Siena, The Botticelli Secret, and her debut novel, The Glassblower of Murano, which was an international bestseller. She was married on the Grand Canal in Venice, and now lives in London with her family.
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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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     "Fiorato's passion for the Italian Renaissance, and Venice in particular, shines in her latest imaginative and colorful tale. The historical details, which will have you believing you are seeing the building of a church and hearing the plague victims' cries, merge with a cross-cultural love story that is touching and relevant to today's reader."

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   • content: "Beautifully written....Captivating language, intricate details, and a very dramatic story line combine to entice anyone interested in historical fiction and timeless tales."
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   • content: "Fiorato nimbly weaves cultural, religious, architectural and medical histories into this captivating romance."
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     March 15, 2014
     In 1576, the bubonic plague ravages the Ottoman Empire. Still stung by his defeat at the Battle of Lepanto, the sultan of Constantinople decides to wield the vicious disease as a weapon against Venice. Doctor to the sultan's harem, Feyra is a skilled, compassionate, beautiful young woman. Yet she fears for her life when the valide sultan is poisoned. On her deathbed, the valide sultan reveals that she is not only Venetian, not only the Venetian doge's daughter, but also Feyra's mother, taken from her sea-captain husband--Feyra's father--by the sultan for her great beauty. Reeling from the news, Feyra is even more startled to learn that her father has been coerced into sailing a ship into Venice--a ship with deadly cargo: the plague. Desperate to escape being forced into her half brother's harem, Feyra stows away on the ship and quickly falls ill with the plague herself. Once in Venice, the sailors abandon Feyra and her father, who soon dies, leaving her to find her way to the doge. The doge, meanwhile, has commissioned the great architect Palladio to build a magnificent cathedral to urge God to save Venice, and he seeks a great doctor to keep his architect healthy. Clad in the customary medical uniform of the day--including voluminous oiled cloaks and a long-beaked mask--the handsome Annibale Cason is anything but a conventional doctor. He despises the quack cures of the day, seeking instead a place to quarantine his patients and try the latest medical theories. Feyra pleads for an audience with the doge, but as soon as the guards realize she is a Muslim infidel, she is chased into the streets. She finds refuge with Palladio, and soon her fate and Cason's intertwine. Fiorato (Daughter of Siena, 2011) nimbly weaves cultural, religious, architectural and medical histories into this captivating romance.

     COPYRIGHT(2014) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     March 15, 2014
     Venice in 1576 is the captivating yet deadly setting for this beautifully written, intriguing foray into the lives of two very different doctors battling the same enemy while trying to find their footing on personal ground. Five years after the Ottoman Empire saw defeat at the Battle of Lepanto, the Turkish sultan crafted a clever, deadly revenge by sending a man dying from the plague on a ship into a Venice harbor. Also on board was 21-year-old Feyra, a desperate stowaway fleeing an uncertain future, who had been a skilled doctor to the sultan's harem. When she arrives in Venice, she soon meets Annibale Cason, a brusque man who very slowly opens up to the possibility of tenderness as he and Feyra work together to save patients and find a cure. Headstrong, smart, and likable, Feyra is a heroine who will resonate with most readers. Captivating language, intricate details, and a very dramatic story line combine to entice anyone interested in historical fiction and timeless tales.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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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...

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