Andrea di Robilant – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Andrea di Robilant. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
21 produkter
Venetian Affair
A True Story of Impossible Love in the Eighteenth Century (Text Only)
E-bok, 2012
96 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The true story of forbidden love in eighteenth-century Venice between an Italian noble and the brilliant, illegitimate daughter of an English baronet.In 1754 Andrea Memmo, the dashing and gifted scion of a distinguished catholic family, fell in love with illegitimate English beauty, Giustiniana …
Lucia
E-bok, 2008
205 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In 1787, the beautiful Lucia is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when Venice falls to Bonaparte. We witness Lucia''s painful series of miscarriages and the pressure on her to produce …
Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers
Häftad, 2012
275 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Venetian Affair
A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
E-bok, 2007
205 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the waning days of Venice’s glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city’s oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter of a Venetian mother and British father. …
Irresistible North
From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers
E-bok, 2011
236 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From the author of A Venetian Affair and Lucia comes a charming odyssey in the path of the mysterious Zen brothers, who explored parts of the New World a century before Columbus, and became both a source of scandal and a cause célèbre among geographers in the following centuries. This delightful …
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
Inbunden, 2024
369 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This Earthly Globe
A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
Häftad, 2025
213 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair (“A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing” — The Washington Post ), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced European minds to the wider world through his passion for geography In the autumn of 1550, a thick …
Chasing the Rose
An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside
E-bok, 2014
236 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair , here is the charming chronicle of his search for the identity of a mysterious old rose. Andrea di Robilant’s tale takes us back to the time of Josephine Bonaparte, as well as into some of the most delightful rose gardens in Italy today, …
Venetian Affair
A True Tale of Forbidden Love in the 18th Century
Häftad, 2005
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
294 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the waning days of Venice’s glory in the mid-1700s, Andrea Memmo was scion to one the city’s oldest patrician families. At the age of twenty-four he fell passionately in love with sixteen-year-old Giustiniana Wynne, the beautiful, illegitimate daughter of a Venetian mother and British father. …
Lucia in the Age of Napoleon
Häftad, 2008
218 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In 1797, Lucia, a beautiful statesman's daughter was married off to a powerful Venetian, only to be caught up in the turbulence of Napoleon's march. This is her story, from dazzling young hostess in Habsburg Vienna, lady-in-waiting at the court of Prince Eugene de Beauharnais in Milan, single …
Venetian Navigators
The Mystery of the Voyages of the Zen Brothers
Häftad, 2012
145 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the 1380s and 90s, Nicolò and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly, reaching the New World a full century before Columbus. The story of their adventure travelled throughout Europe, from the workshop of …
Venetian Navigators
The Voyages of the ZEN Brothers to the Far North
E-bok, 2011
118 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the 1380s and 90s, Nicolò and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly, reaching the New World a full century before Columbus. The story of their adventure travelled throughout Europe, from the workshop of …
Lucia in the Age of Napoleon
E-bok, 2014
134 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In 1797, Lucia, a beautiful statesman's daughter was married off to a powerful Venetian, only to be caught up in the turbulence of Napoleon's march. This is her story, from dazzling young hostess in Habsburg Vienna, lady-in-waiting at the court of Prince Eugene de Beauharnais in Milan, single …
This Earthly Globe
A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
Inbunden, 2024
247 kr
Lägg i varukorg
'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan'A wonderful book' Sunday Telegraph, 5*'Triumphant' Literary ReviewDURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth of geographical information new to Europeans was published in Venice under the …
This Earthly Globe
A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World
Häftad, 2024
203 kr
Lägg i varukorg
'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan'A wonderful book' Sunday Telegraph, 5*'Triumphant' Literary ReviewDURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth of geographical information new to Europeans was published in Venice under the …
This Earthly Globe
'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan
Häftad, 2025
154 kr
Lägg i varukorg
'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan'Marries the intrigue of Europe's most powerful royal courts with the globe-trotting thrill of adventure and discovery' Sunday Telegraph, 5* reviewDURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, a little-known public servant in the Venetian …
Autumn in Venice
Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse
E-bok, 2018
220 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The acclaimed author of A Venetian Affair now gives us the remarkable story of Hemingway''s love affair with both the city of Venice and the muse he found there--a vivacious eighteen-year-old who inspired the man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work. In the fall of 1948 …
Lucia
A Venetian Life in the Age of Napleon
Häftad, 1900
273 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In 1787, the beautiful Lucia is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when Venice falls to Bonaparte. We witness Lucia's painful series of miscarriages and the pressure on her to produce an …
Autumn in Venice
Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse
Häftad, 2019
162 kr
Lägg i varukorg
National Geographic Traveller's the best books on European cities, 2019In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway was approaching fifty and hadn't published a novel in nearly a decade. He travelled for the first time to Venice and there, at a duck shoot in the lagoon he met and fell in love with Adriana …
Venetian Affair
A True Story of Impossible Love in the Eighteenth Century
Häftad, 2005
159 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The true story of forbidden love in eighteenth-century Venice between an Italian noble and the brilliant, illegitimate daughter of an English baronet.In 1754 Andrea Memmo, the dashing and gifted scion of a distinguished catholic family, fell in love with illegitimate English beauty, Giustiniana …
