The sixteen pleasures / Robert Hellenga.
By: Hellenga, Robert.
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BookPublisher: New York : Dell, c1994Description: 369 p.ISBN: 0385314698 :.Subject(s): Manuscripts -- Italy -- Florence -- Conservation and restoration -- Fiction | Aretino, Pietro, 1492-1556 -- Manuscripts -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Italy -- Florence -- Fiction | Young women -- Italy -- Florence -- Fiction | Americans -- Italy -- Florence -- Fiction | Florence (Italy) -- Fiction | Manuscripts -- Conservation and restoration -- Fiction | Aretino, Pietro, 1492-1556 -- Fiction | Young women -- Fiction | Americans -- Florence (Italy) -- Fiction | Florence (Italy) -- Fiction | Historical fiction | Romantic suspense novelsGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Romantic suspense novels.DDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: Margot Harrington, an expert at book conservancy, discovers a volume of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano accompanying sixteen steamy sonnets by Pietro Aretino in a convent library. When published over four centuries earlier, the Vatican had insisted all copies be destroyed. This one--now unique--volume has survived.
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Margot Harrington, an expert at book conservancy, discovers a volume of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano accompanying sixteen steamy sonnets by Pietro Aretino in a convent library. When published over four centuries earlier, the Vatican had insisted all copies be destroyed. This one--now unique--volume has survived.
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