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Category Archives: A Beautiful Woman in Venice
Redefining Beauty: Giovanna
Do you believe in miracles? Giovanna did. During the plague of 1630, she wanted to protect her neighbors in the Corte Nova in Venice’s Castello district. Watch this video to learn more about what Giovanna did and see where she … Continue reading
Posted in A Beautiful Woman in Venice, Italian heritage, Venice, Writing
Tagged altars, Black Plague, books, bubonic plague, Castello, Corte Nova, Italian history, Italian women, italy, Save Venice, sotoportego, superstition, travel, travel writing, Venetian architecture, venezia, Venice, Venice history, women's history, writing
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Two Women, One University
Today I spent a lovely day in Padova with Tiziana, the person who translated my Casanova guidebook, Seductive Venice, into Italian. We walked around the city to see the most beautiful sites, from the Caffe Pedrocchi, to the Palazzo delle … Continue reading
Posted in A Beautiful Woman in Venice, Italian heritage, Venice, Writing
Tagged anatomical gallery, Cassandra Fedele, Elena Cornaro, feminism, Italian history, Italian women, italy, Padua, Palazzo Bo, research, some, travel, University of Padua, venezia, Venice, Venice history, video, women's equality, women's history
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More Remarkable Venetian Women
A Beautiful Woman in Venice details the lives of Venetian women from the 1300s onwards, dipping a toe into the 1800s. Then I came across this page from Venezia Autentica, which describes a number of “my” Venetian women and then adds … Continue reading
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Tagged Arcangela Tarabotti, books, Elisabetta Caminer Turra, feminism, Gaspara Stampa, history, Italian history, Italian women, italy, Maria Boscola, raffle, Rosalba Carriera, tombola, travel, venezia, Venezia Autentica, Venice, Venice history, women writers, women's history, writing
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Sneaking into Rosalba’s Garden
Ca’ Biondetti sits in the shadows of Peggy Guggenheim’s home-turned-museum on the Grand Canal. But oh, what treasures and history it holds! I’ve written about it in A Beautiful Woman in Venice as the former home of Rosalba Carriera, famed … Continue reading
Redefining Beauty: Arcangela Tarabotti
Happy International Women’s Day! To celebrate, I’d like to bring you a video in the Redefining Beauty series. Today I’ll focus on Arcangela Tarabotti. We don’t have a portrait of her. As a teenager, she took orders to be a … Continue reading
Posted in A Beautiful Woman in Venice, Venice, Writing
Tagged Arcangela Tarabotti, authors, books, Castello, convents, essays, feminism, history, Italian history, Italian women, italy, literary academies, literature, nuns, Sant'Anna, travel, venezia, Venice, Venice history, video, women writers, women's equality, women's history, writers, writing
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Saldi Saldi Saldi!
Need something new to load onto your new eReader? Smashwords is having a promotion from December 25 through the end of 2017, and you can get ebook editions of any of my books at half price! Prices range from 99 … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Casanova, christmas, Gondolas, gondolier, Italian history, Italian men, Italian women, italy, murano, sale, Sarra Copia Sulam, Smashwords, travel, venezia, Venice, Venice history, women writers, women's history, writing
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