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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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