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Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In 1715 Italy, eight-year-old Anna Maria Lombardini arrives at a Venice orphanage with little but the special violin her father made for her, but when her teacher, Antonio Vivaldi, favors her over a fellow student, the beloved instrument winds up in a canal. Includes glossary and historical note.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Fearing that her research will be rendered useless if a Cambridge professor proves his theory about seventeenth-century Venetian courtesan Alessandra Rossetti, Ph.D. candidate Claire Donovan agrees to chaperone a troubled teen in order to gain passage tothe professor's presentation in Venice.
Author
Series
Undrowned child volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Language
English
Description
In 1899, eleven-year-old Teodora goes with her scientist parents from Naples to Venice, Italy, which is falling victim to a series of violent natural disasters, and once there she is drawn into a web of mysterious adventures involving mermaids, an ancient prophecy, and the possible destruction of the city itself.
Author
Series
Undrowned child volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1900, and the evil traitor, Bajamonte Tiepolo, is back, his baddened magic spreading across the globe. Now Teo and Renzo must save both Venice and London, before it is too late"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Venice, 1717. Fifteen-year-old Luisa has only wanted one thing: to be the best at violin. As a student at the Ospedale della Piet�a, she hopes to join the highest ranks of its illustrious girls' orchestra and become a prot�eg�e of the great Antonio Vivaldi. Luisa is good at violin, but she is not the best. She has peers, but she does not have friends. Until Maddalena. After a scandal threatens her noble family's reputation, Maddalena is sent...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Seeking his fortune in sixteenth-century London, young wordsmith William Shakespeare joins a band of players before he is dispatched to Venice on an assignment that renders him the target of Catholic assassins and a shadowy killer.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A distinguished professor and widely published author whose scholarship has been awarded the Otto Grundler Prize and Charles Homer Haskins Medal, Thomas F. Madden offers a "savory, tantalizing" (Publishers Weekly) depiction of Venice. The first complete English-language portrait of the city in almost 30 years, Venicedetails La Serenissima's unique history - including its role as the birthplace of capitalism - that is every bit as fascinating as its...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 33
Publisher
Lectorum Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel to seventeenth-century Venice, Italy, to save the city from disaster.
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