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Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice: 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: she is no longer permitted to treat her patients, women who need her desperately, without her father's patronage. She sets out across Europe to find where and why he has gone. 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 probes the mystery of her father's flight, and opens new mysteries of her own. Not just mysteries of ailments and treatments, but ultimate mysteries of mortality, love, and the timeless human spirit. The novel contains medical lore and sensuous, vivid details of Renaissance life.… (més)
Started out slow, got slightly better, then I just started skipping the long, boring, descriptive paragraphs...waiting for more dialogue. Should be called he book of dullness and cures...except there is no helping this one. ( )
Muy pocas mujeres podían ejercer la medicina en la Venecia de 1590. Gabriella lo ha conseguido gracias a la ayuda de su padre, el renombrado doctor Mondini, con el que ha adquirido los conocimientos y la intuición necesarios, y a quien ayuda a documentarse para su obra maestra: un enciclopédico trabajo titulado El libro de las dolencias. Cuando su padre desaparece misteriosamente, el Gremio de Médicos le prohíbe ejercer sin su tutela. Para continuar con la vocación de su vida, atendiendo a las mujeres venecianas, Gabriella habrá de encontrar a su padre y regresar con él. Emprende así un apasionante viaje por la Europa de finales del siglo XVI, siguiendo las pistas que aparecen en las enigmáticas cartas que recibe de su progenitor.
I got this book for free through Goodreads First Reads. And let me be frank, that was months ago. This was not an easy read. On the other hand, it was a beautiful and melancholic book. The ending seemed to clash with the mood of the book, being so upbeat and jovial. All in all, I would recommend reading this book if you like incongruous endings and roller coaster rides of emotions. Also crying. ( )
A young woman doctor from Venice goes on a journey across late 16th century Europe to find her father. She uses his letters to her as a map of his own journey through the Medieval landscape. As she meets people who knew him, she suspects he has been driven and cursed with some sort of madness. She writes tales of remedies and cures for various maladies on her way. ( )
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Nullaque iam tellus,/nullus mihi permanet aer./Incola ceu nusquam,/sic sum peregrinus ubique./ No land now, no air/is constant for me./Because I dwell nowhere,/I'm a pilgrim everywhere. - Petrach
Le aque sta via ani e mesi, e po' le torna ai so paesi. The waters vanish for months and years and then return to their home. - Sixteenth-century Venetian proverb
That which wounds, shall heal. - Attributed to the oracle of Apollo
Dedicatòria
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For Bill and Adrienne
Primeres paraules
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From the foreign marks and characters in diverse hands and languages upon the sheet of paper that enclosed it, I could see that my father's present letter had traveled, a lost communique, through many of the cities on his route.
Citacions
Darreres paraules
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"Yes, we will, " I answered, smiling at my daughter.
Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th century Venice: 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: she is no longer permitted to treat her patients, women who need her desperately, without her father's patronage. She sets out across Europe to find where and why he has gone. 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 probes the mystery of her father's flight, and opens new mysteries of her own. Not just mysteries of ailments and treatments, but ultimate mysteries of mortality, love, and the timeless human spirit. The novel contains medical lore and sensuous, vivid details of Renaissance life.
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