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The sixteen pleasures

Author: Robert Hellenga
Publisher: New York : Soho, ©1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
The adventure of Margot Harrington, an American book conservator saving treasures in the 1966 flood in Florence. She is asked by the mother superior of a convent to help secretly sell a banned book to raise money for the convent. It's the only copy of The Sixteen Pleasures, a volume of sonnets and erotic drawings, ordered destroyed by the Vatican when it was published in 1523.
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Genre/Form: Historical fiction
Romantic suspense fiction
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Hellenga, Robert, 1941-
Sixteen pleasures.
New York : Soho, c1994
(OCoLC)624437754
Named Person: Pietro Aretino
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Hellenga
ISBN: 1569470065 : 9781569470060
OCLC Number: 29387198
Description: 327 p. ; 24 cm.
Other Titles: 16 pleasures.
Responsibility: Robert Hellenga.

Abstract:

The adventure of Margot Harrington, an American book conservator saving treasures in the 1966 flood in Florence. She is asked by the mother superior of a convent to help secretly sell a banned book to raise money for the convent. It's the only copy of The Sixteen Pleasures, a volume of sonnets and erotic drawings, ordered destroyed by the Vatican when it was published in 1523.

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