Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice, she's a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entree to this all-male profession, and inspired in her a shared mission to understand the secrets of the human body. Then her father disappears and Gabriella faces a crisis: without her father's patronage, she is no longer permitted to treat her patients. So she sets out across Europe to find her father. Following clues from his occasional enigmatic letters, Gabriella crosses Switzerland, Germany and France, entering strange and forbidding cities. She travels to Scotland, the Netherlands, and finally to Morocco. In each new land, she uncovers details of her father's unexplained flight, and opens new mysteries of her own. Not just the mysteries of ailments and treatments, but the ultimate mysteries of mortality, love, and the timeless human spirit.
'The Book of Madness and Cures is a marvelous, inventive story of a singular courageous woman on a quest to find her missing father. Set in the Renaissance, it explores the wonders, and dangers, of Europe and Asia Minor and recreates a world - exotic and familiar, sensuous and beguiling - where a defiant woman, practicing the ancient healing arts, is believed to be contrary to the laws of God and Man' -- Kathleen Kent, author of The Traitor's Wife and The Heretic's Daughter
Title: The book of madness and cures
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Regina O'Melveny
ISBN 13: 9781848547056
ISBN 10: 1848547056
Publisher: John Murray General Publishing Division
Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publication Date: 10/04/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Historical fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification:
813.6
(DC23)
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Thickness: 32mm
Weight: 570g