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Brendan Dooley
Mattress Maker’s Daughter [EPUB ebook]
The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni de Medici and Livia Vernazza

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In explaining an improbable liaison and its consequences, A Mattress Maker’s Daughter explores changing concepts of love and romance, new standards of public and private conduct, and emerging attitudes toward property and legitimacy just as the age of Renaissance humanism gives way to the Counter Reformation and Early Modern Europe.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 454 ● ISBN 9780674369092 ● Publisher Harvard University Press ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2953958 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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