The apothecary's shop : a novel of Venice, 1118 A.D. / Roberto Tiraboschi ; translated from the Italian by Katherine Gregor.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Europa Editions, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 329 pages : maps ; 21 cmContent type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781609454173 (paperback); 1609454170Uniform titles: Bottega dello speziale. English. Subject(s): Missing children -- Fiction | Women physicians -- Fiction | Supernatural -- Fiction | Venice (Italy) -- History -- 697-1508 -- FictionGenre/Form: Thrillers (Fiction) | Historical fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. DDC classification: 853/.914 LOC classification: PQ4880.I67 | B6813 2017Summary: In a medieval Venice undone by devastating famine and excessive, orgiastic Carnival festivities of all kinds, the protagonists of The Apothecary's Shop chase a dream of rebirth, the eternal dream of defeating death. The young Costanza, of the noble Grimani family, has disappeared. The family scribe, Edgardo, promises to return the girl to her family, who themselves may not be above suspicion. Doctors, apothecaries, undertakers, Eastern merchants, farmers: everyone seems to be involved in the girl's disappearance, even African slave traders. Abella, Edgardo's ambiguous ally and the only female doctor in Venice, introduces him into secrets and occult practices of medicine. Through her, Edgardo discovers Sabbatai's Apothecary, where remedies and concoctions of all kinds are prepared and clues to Costanza's disappearance may lie.
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Translated from the Italian.
In a medieval Venice undone by devastating famine and excessive, orgiastic Carnival festivities of all kinds, the protagonists of The Apothecary's Shop chase a dream of rebirth, the eternal dream of defeating death. The young Costanza, of the noble Grimani family, has disappeared. The family scribe, Edgardo, promises to return the girl to her family, who themselves may not be above suspicion. Doctors, apothecaries, undertakers, Eastern merchants, farmers: everyone seems to be involved in the girl's disappearance, even African slave traders. Abella, Edgardo's ambiguous ally and the only female doctor in Venice, introduces him into secrets and occult practices of medicine. Through her, Edgardo discovers Sabbatai's Apothecary, where remedies and concoctions of all kinds are prepared and clues to Costanza's disappearance may lie.
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