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The silent duchess / Darcia Maraini ; translated by Dick Kitto and Elspeth Spottiswood.

Title
The silent duchess / Darcia Maraini ; translated by Dick Kitto and Elspeth Spottiswood.
Author
Maraini, Dacia
Publication
London : Arcadia, 2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Kitto, Dick
  • Spottiswood, Elspeth
Description
319 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
"Palermo, Sicily. In the Piazza Marina a large crowd has gathered to witness the public hanging of a young brigand. Duke Signoretto di Fontanasalsa, leader of the Noble Fathers of the Inquisition, is in attendance, and with him is his deaf-mute daughter, Marianna, who is seven years old. The child watches as the rope is slipped round the prisoner's neck; there is a roll of drums and the hangman kicks away the box on which the boy is standing; the body drops and starts to rotate. The execution over, the Duke turns to his daughter: surely such a sight will force her to speak? But she remains silent and trembling, clinging to the folds of her father's robes."-- Publisher description.
Uniform Title
Lunga vita di Marianna Lucria. English
Alternative Title
Lunga vita di Marianna Lucria.
Subject
  • Aristocracy (Social class) > Palermo > Fiction
  • Women > Palermo > Social conditions > 16th century > Fiction
  • Mute persons > Palermo > History > 16th century > Fiction
Genre/Form
Historical fiction
Language (note)
  • Translated from the Italian.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781906413729 (pbk.)
  • 190641372X (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 540182506
  • SCSB-12100798
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library