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The Venetian Bargain (2012)

by Marina Fiorato(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

125004295X (ISBN13: 9781250042958)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

review 1: 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... more 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.
review 2: Marina Fiorato is a history grad who attended the University of Venice. She certainly adsorbed the mid 1500's view of what Venice would have been like when the great architect Andrea Palladio was creating buildings and churches there. As we watch the Ebola epidemic spread it is easy to relate to the terror of the Black Plague spreading through Istanbul and Venice. The story is about a sea Captain's daughter who lived the Muslim life in Istanbul/Constantinople as a doctor to the harem but then must flee and take the plague to enemies in Christian Venice. Promising to do this is the significance of the title which other reviews sometimes name as "The Venetian Bargain" and sometimes as "The Venetian Contract".Hero Feyra begins the story hating "the enemy" but ends up happy to live on a Venetian island where she is fortunate enough to work alongside male doctor: Annibale. Their closeness provides a growing love story amid her help curing plaque victims and battling the configuration that burns much of Venice. As a heroine she worries about her identity being discovered, wants to talk to the Doge and figures out how to relate to the 4 horsemen in Revelations in the Bible because she has her Mothers crystal ring depicting these 4 horsemen and because she realizes her Mother came from Venice. less

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