Name: The Book of Madness and Cures
ISBN: 9780316195836

Regina O'Melveny

Sixteenth century renaissance woman and renowned physician, Gabriella Mondini searches across Europe for her missing father, without whom she can no longer continue to treat her Venetian patients, who need her desperately. 60,000 first printing.

A Novel

The Book of Madness and Cures

Cindy Lieberman

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           3.75. A wide ranging novel of a young woman raised and schooled by her physician-father in Venice in the 1500s only to be abandoned by him when their collaboration on a book of maladies and madness is nearing completion. When will she risk to find him... and what's left of the manuscript pages? Interesting perspectives on women physicians, women's' maladies and women travelers during the late Renaissance.

The Book of Madness and Cures A Novel

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