The Venetian Bride: Bloodlines and Blood Feuds in Venice and Its Empire

by Patricia Brown

A true story of vendetta and intrigue, triumph and tragedy, exile and repatriation, this book recounts the interwoven microhistories of Count Girolamo Della Torre, a feudal lord with a castle and other properties in the Friuli, and Giulia Bembo, grand-niece of Cardinal Pietro Bembo and daughter of Gian Matteo Bembo, a powerful Venetian senator with a distinguished career in service to the Venetian Republic. Their marriage in the mid-sixteenth century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192894579
• ISBN13: 9780192894571
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.6"