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The Sixteen Pleasures

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York: Dell Publishing, 1995Description: 369 pages ; 21 cm Media type:
  • unmediated
ISBN:
  • 9780385314695
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3558.E4753S59 
Summary: "Margot Harrington is an American volunteer, an expert at book conservancy. While struggling to save a waterlogged convent library, she discovers a fabulous collection of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano that accompany sixteen of Pietro Aretino's steamy sonnets. When it was published over four centuries ago, the Vatican mandated that all copies be destroyed. Only this volume remains. The abbess begs Margot to save the abbey's finances by secretly selling the magnificently illustrated erotica--but the bishop who oversees the abbey must never know. Margot's other clandestine project is an Italian artist attempting radical measures to save endangered frescoes. She is 29 and available; he, older and married. He shares her sense of mission, then her bed in this ambrosial story of spiritual longing and earthly desire"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Asian University for Women Library Fiction General Stacks PS3558.E4753S59 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 30/10/2024 030265
Total holds: 0

"Margot Harrington is an American volunteer, an expert at book conservancy. While struggling to save a waterlogged convent library, she discovers a fabulous collection of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano that accompany sixteen of Pietro Aretino's steamy sonnets. When it was published over four centuries ago, the Vatican mandated that all copies be destroyed. Only this volume remains. The abbess begs Margot to save the abbey's finances by secretly selling the magnificently illustrated erotica--but the bishop who oversees the abbey must never know. Margot's other clandestine project is an Italian artist attempting radical measures to save endangered frescoes. She is 29 and available; he, older and married. He shares her sense of mission, then her bed in this ambrosial story of spiritual longing and earthly desire"-- Provided by publisher.

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