The Book of Madness and Cures - Regina O'Melveny
KORTE INHOUD
Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in sixteenth-century Venice: a woman who practises medicine. But when her father disappears on a mysterious journey, she is no longer permitted to treat her patients and is forced to defy all convention to cross Europe and find where - and why - he has gone.
Following the clues that her father has left - enigmatic letters from his travels as he researches his vast encyclopaedia, 'The Book of Diseases' - Gabriella retraces his steps. Along the way she encounters danger, love, tragedy and a revelation about a family secret and her father's fate.
Filled with medical lore and vivid details of Renaissance life.
Following the clues that her father has left - enigmatic letters from his travels as he researches his vast encyclopaedia, 'The Book of Diseases' - Gabriella retraces his steps. Along the way she encounters danger, love, tragedy and a revelation about a family secret and her father's fate.
Filled with medical lore and vivid details of Renaissance life.
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