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A Beautiful Woman in Venice Paperback – January 10, 2023

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A stately woman in a brocade gown steps off a golden boat. A mirror merchant in simple white blouse takes action to preserve her republic. An elegant singer poses in a private salon. Standing at a university podium, a woman holds forth in Latin on women’s education. A cloistered nun in a walled up convent uses the only power she has—her pen. Artists hold in their hands pastels or pens or glass or thread to document or protect or adorn those around them.

All these women represent Venice, Italy’s city of water and light. Libraries of books have been written about Venetian history and Venetian men’s roles in shaping it. But little is written about the lives of its women. In this book you’ll read their stories. Beautiful women, each in her own way.

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    January 10, 2023
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    5.5 x 0.68 x 8.5 inches
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    979-8366860161
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BRYZNQML
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (January 10, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8366860161
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.68 x 8.5 inches
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    4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

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Kathleen Ann Gonzalez

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Kathleen Ann Gonzalez started out as a teacher but was surprised to discover that she is a writer and dancer as well. While she spends most of her time trying to infect teenagers with her great enthusiasm for literature and writing, she still squeezes in time to write about her work and her travels. Her first book, Free Gondola Ride, is about the gondoliers of Venice, while her second book, A Small Candle, includes stories about participants in the Camp Everytown program. She has published several other essays and articles over the years and has recently published a walking guide to Venice based on the life of Giacomo Casanova, entitled Seductive Venice: In Casanova's Footsteps, available in both the U.S. and in Italy. Her latest book, A Beautiful Woman in Venice, shares the life stories of 30 remarkable Venetian women and how they overcame obstacles to share their talents. Next, Kathleen Gonzalez turned to creating anthologies and edited two books filled with stories about Venice, Italy: First Spritz Is Free: Confessions of Venice Addicts and Venice Rising: Aqua Granda, Pandemic, Rebirth.

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Dianne Hales
5.0 out of 5 stars As beautiful as its subjects
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2017
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An irresistible invitation to meet fascinating women as varied, intriguing, surprising and seductive as their beautiful city. With graceful prose and a scholar’s eye for detail, Kathleen Gonzalez brings to life women of infinite charms and often unrecognized talents. Read before or during a trip to Venice, and you’ll enrich your journey. Read for the sheer pleasure in its pages, and you’ll start planning a trip.
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Martha Engber Reads
5.0 out of 5 stars Strong women, indeed!
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2021
No one brings long-ago Venice to life via the city’s many colorful women of yore better than Kathleen Ann Gonzalez in her book A Beautiful Woman in Venice.

If you love history and vivid, well-told stories of strong women who took action, despite the often crushing restrictions of their patriarchal society, this book is for you.

As the author writes, “Venice’s history books are filled with stories of women’s oppression, harassment, and ridicule. But not all of the city’s history was so, and throughout the centuries examples of independent and empowered women do crop up. One sentence here or a couple there, a footnote perhaps, and these women peek out to the present from behind church doors, convent grills, hospice windows, and palace balconies. These are the women who founded or funded numerous Venetian institutions that would provide succor for untold numbers of their sisters.”

Meticulously researched, Ms. Gonzalez takes readers into the lives of fascinating women like Giustina Rossi, an old woman who dropped her heavy spice-grinding mortar off of a balcony , effectively putting down an attempted government overthrow on June 15, 1320. And I loved the story of Cassandra Fedele, born in 1465. A brilliant young woman, her father encouraged her to learn at a time when only thirty-three percent of men were educated and only twelve percent of women could read and write. Cassandra wound up corresponding with the great thinkers of her time.

The author makes Venetian life come alive through vivid sensory details and explanations about the nuanced mores of each time period. While the life of a female back then seemed anything but free and easy, I loved reading about women who made the most of what they had.
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S. Tritto
5.0 out of 5 stars A book about courage, daring and the ability to achieve historic accomplishments!
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2017
This is a book that should be read by Gloria Steinem, Harvey Weinstein and everyone in between. I purchased this book at a book signing as a courtesy to the author. I was blown away by stories, the writing and the pure enjoyment of reading it. This is a book about courage, daring, and the ability to accomplish historic achievements in a time when the principals had no standing in society in a place that was unique politically and socially. The wonderful characters from a bygone era took on issues that still resonate today. González’s writing is first rate and made what could have been an ordinary history lesson into an inspiring adventure. I am looking forward to reading more of her work.
Stephen Tritto, Author of Taking Flight
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5.0 out of 5 stars Full stories of full lives.
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2020
Full of romance, with fantastic people in a beautiful setting, navigating through life in a mysterious time.
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Nancy Schwalen
4.0 out of 5 stars Written by a good friend, Kathy Gonzalez
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2017
Written by a good friend, Kathy Gonzalez. It contains 26 chapters about individual Venetian women up to the early 19th-century and 2 chapters covering several women, each around a theme. Her title is A Beautiful Woman in Venice but I could easily substitute and number of other adjectives - feisty, clever, artistic, musical, literate, opinionated, independent - for "beautiful." We seem to think the 20th Century has the lock on women's liberation but these Venetian women seemed to not let antiquated ideas about "a woman's place" get in the way.
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Laura
5.0 out of 5 stars Colorful threads in the rich tapestry of Venetian history
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2017
Kathleen Ann Gonzalez has a knack for detail. That makes her the perfect Venetophile, for everything in Venice is about the details—the beautiful, the bizarre, the amazing, the so-strange-that-they-can-only-be-true. But A Beautiful Woman in Venice is more than a collection of fascinating tidbits. Story by story, Gonzalez constructs a cohesive picture of women’s lives across centuries of Venetian history. In a tribute to the achievements of women from disparate walks of life, Gonzalez spins each woman’s tale as a colorful thread woven into the rich tapestry of Venetian history.
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J. Locktov
5.0 out of 5 stars "A pigmy, a misanthrope, and a seducer: what do they all have in common?"
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2015
We all know about the men that contributed to the history of Venice. But what about the women? The learned daughters of La Serenissima that wrote and published and performed, held literary salons, cared for the poor and forgotten? Kathleen Ann Gonzalez has written a wonderful compendium of charismatic portraits that celebrate the brave, intelligent, resourceful, compassionate, and gifted women of Venice's past. In the early centuries of the Republic, women had two choices, get married or enter a convent. The less fortunate sold their bodies. A formal education was not available. Living with, around, through, and beyond these limitations, Gonzalez writes of the women who lived exceptional lives beyond the constraints of society. These Venetian women were feminists centuries before the word was ever used.
Gonzalez shares their adventurous spirits and delves into their circumstances: political, economic, familial, artistic, sexual, and intellectual. To learn about these beautiful women is to deepen our understanding of the Venetian culture.
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