The sixteen pleasures

Description:

The Italians called them "Mud Angels," the young foreigners who came to Florence in 1966 to save the city's treasured art from the Arno's flooded banks. American volunteer Margot Harrington was one of them, finding her niche in the waterlogged library of a Carmelite convent. Within its walls she discovered a priceless Renaissance masterwork: a sensuous volume of sixteen erotic poems and drawings. Inspired to sample each of the ineffable sixteen pleasures, Margot embarks on the intrigue of a lifetime with a forbidden lover and the contraband volume—a sensual, life-altering journey of loss and rebirth in this exquisite novel of spiritual longing and earthly desire.

subjects: Mystery,  Fiction,  Manuscripts,  Americans,  Man-woman relationships,  Conservation and restoration,  Young women,  American Historical fiction,  Romantic suspense novels,  Italy, fiction,  Fiction, general,  Suspense fiction,  Fiction, romance, general,  Librarians, fiction,  Abbeys,  Books,  Erotic drawing,  FICTION / Literary,  FICTION / Contemporary Women

People: Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)

Places: Italy,  Florence,  Florence (Italy)

Times: 1966