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Nicky and Chris are stranded in the Isles of Scilly; the last place they want to be. Daniel lost his leg in an accident and is managing fine. But he can't persuade his mother of that - she won't let him out of her sight. Howard G. Stevenson has a problem, too. He's after the famous Luardi Pearls stolen from an exhibition. And Granny can't understand why anybody should burgle her guesthouse without stealing anything. The summer holidays are taking a turn for the unexpected... An N.C.D. Mystery
Sophia is shocked when she meets Stephen, a handsome man who looks uncannily like the young man in a portrait painted by her late father. He turns up at the gallery where she works during an exhibition of her father's work, and once he learns that she's an art restorer, he asks her to visit his palazzo in Venice to appraise some paintings. She's elated by his exciting offer, but has no idea of where Stephen's true intentions lie…...
When Niccolo Polo vanishes on an expedition to Asia and his family writes him off as dead, sixteen-year-old Marco knows that it’s up to him to rescue his father. He sets out on a dangerous journey—but it is not the adventure he bargained for. Marco comes face to face with the magical Eastern world we know from mythology and legend, complete with dragons, flying carpets, and genies. And it is here that Marco finds himself caught in a dangerous plot in the court of Kublai Khan while trying to discover the mystical secret of the fabled dragon’s pearl.

Venetian diplomacy at the sublime porte during the sixteenth century. The index librorum prohibitorum and the censorship of the Venetian press. A Venetian printer-publisher in the sixteenth century. Cardinal Contarini and his friends. The marriage of Ibraim Pasha. An international episode. Shakespeare and Venice. Marcantonio Bragadin, a sixteenth-century Cagliostro. Paula Sarpi, the man. The Spanish conspiracy: an episode in the decline of Venice. Cromwell and the venetian republic

Horatio Forbes Brown

Published: 1907

Total Pages: 364


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Few Renaissance Venetians saw the New World with their own eyes. As the print capital of early modern Europe, however, Venice developed a unique relationship to the Americas. Venetian editors, mapmakers, translators, writers, and cosmographers represented the New World at times as a place that the city's mariners had discovered before the Spanish, a world linked to Marco Polo's China, or another version of Venice, especially in the case of Tenochtitlan. Elizabeth Horodowich explores these various and distinctive modes of imagining the New World, including Venetian rhetorics of 'firstness', similitude, othering, comparison, and simultaneity generated through forms of textual and visual pastiche that linked the wider world to the Venetian lagoon. These wide-ranging stances allowed Venetians to argue for their different but equivalent participation in the Age of Encounters. Whereas historians have traditionally focused on the Spanish conquest and colonization of the New World, and the Dutch and English mapping of it, they have ignored the wide circulation of Venetian Americana. Horodowich demonstrates how with their printed texts and maps, Venetian newsmongers embraced a fertile tension between the distant and the close. In doing so, they played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.