Portland Public Library

The book of madness and cures, by Regina O'Melveny

Label
The book of madness and cures, by Regina O'Melveny
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The book of madness and cures
Oclc number
779777897
Responsibility statement
by Regina O'Melveny
Series statement
Thorndike Press large print historical fiction
Summary
Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in 16th-century Venice: a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entrée 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 without her father's patronage. So she sets out across Europe to find where - and why - he has gone
Content
Mapped to