Daughter of Venice (23 page)
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Napoli, Donna Jo.
Daughter of Venice / Donna Jo Napoli.
p. cm.
Summary: Frustrated with the restrictions her gender imposes on her life, fourteen-year-old Donata, disguised as a boy, sneaks out of her noble family’s house to roam the streets of late sixteenth-century Venice and then must confront the repercussions of her actions.
[1. Sex role—Fiction. 2. Venice (Italy)—History—16th century—Fiction. 3. Italy—History—16th century—Fiction. 4. Family life—Italy—Venice—Fiction. 5. Jews—Italy—Venice—History—16th century—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.N15 Dau 2002
[Fic]—dc21
2001032426
March 2002
eISBN: 978-0-375-89007-9
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