THE VENETIAN CONTRACT
Book ID/图书代码： 12691012B55125
English Summary/英文概要： 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 own life is in danger too, and it will require all skills of medico Annibale Cason, the city’s finest plague doctor, to keep him alive.
But what Annibale had not counted on was meeting Feyra, who is now under Palladio’s protection, a woman who can not only match his medical skills but can also teach him how to care.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1576年，在奥斯曼帝国勒班陀海战失利后的五年，一艘承载着致命货物的商船悄无声息地进入了威尼斯。 一个筋疲力尽的男人，下船后蹒跚地前往圣马克广场。 他带来了一份土耳其苏丹献给威尼斯的礼物。 几天之内这座城市将感染上腺鼠疫(黑死病)-，而土耳其人将为他们多年前的海战失败复仇。
几个月瘟疫盛行对威尼斯造成了几乎灭顶之灾的破坏。 绝望中，总督传唤了当地的建筑师安德里亚•帕拉迪奥(Andrea Palladio)并委派他一项任务：他职业生涯中最为伟大的教堂，威尼斯最为庄严的祭神地将被保存下来。帕拉迪奥此时自己也处于危险中，而这需要安尼巴莱• 卡松(Annibale Cason)，这座城市最好的大夫，施展浑身解数，来确保他活命。 但卡松大夫未曾料到来自土耳其货船的另一位乘客，一位年轻而美丽的伊斯兰国王后宫御医将一展他的绝世妙手。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：‘Captivating language, intricate details, and a very dramatic story line combine to entice anyone interested in historical fiction and timeless tales.’- Booklist April 2014
‘With sumptuous descriptions and impeccable research, it is educational as well as entertaining. Readers who enjoyed Karen Essex’s Leonardo’s Swans or Sarah Dunant’s Birth of Venus, will appreciate The Venetian Bargain.’- Reader to Reader April 2014
About the Author/作者介绍： 玛丽娜•菲欧拉托（Marina Fiorato），半个威尼斯人，毕业于牛津大学与威尼斯大学历史系，专长是研究莎士比亚戏剧中的历史。大学毕业后，她研读美术，曾当过画家、演员与影评家，并曾替知名摇滚团体U2与滚石等设计巡回演唱视觉效果。目前与丈夫、孩子住在英国。其处女作《穆拉诺吹玻璃的人》一鸣惊人，当年在意大利本土即畅销30多万册，被译为12种文字在20余国翻译出版。Marina Fiorato is half-Venetian. She was born in Manchester and raised in the Yorkshire Dales. She is a history graduate of Oxford University and the University of Venice, where she specialized in the study of Shakespeare’s plays as an historical source. After university she studied art and since worked as an illustrator, actress and film reviewer. Marina was married on the Grand Canal and lives in north London with her husband, son and daughter.
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