$20 · Divine Mistress, by Frank G. Slaughter (HC 1949)

*PRICE REDUCED* **Browse our huge selection of vintage items and collectibles! Click "View seller's list" in the user profile section of this ad. Click "Next" at the bottom right of the last ad to flip to the next page.** ----------- Price firm Excellent condition Hardcover, tight covers and binding No cracked hinges 340 clean pages "DIVINE MISTRESS" by Frank G. Slaughter Published by Doubleday & Company, 1949 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To see our entire selection of vintage and antique books, go to: www.usedvictoria.com/classifieds/all?description=1A0B4C9D3E8F2G7 To see our other books of this category, go to: www.usedvictoria.com/classifieds/all?description=1A0B4C9D3E8F2G7+NOVEL * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Period historical romance. The setting shifts from a Priory in Padua, where young Antonio Servetus is studying for holy orders in 1562 -- to Spain of the Inquisition -- and England. Servetus was a teacher of anatomy, and the chance discovery of the Botticelli Birth of Venus fired his imagination so that almost he found himself in love with the image. The appointment of a new Prior, his suspicions of Servetus as author of a revolutionary monograph on the circulation of the blood, the transfer of Antonio to Venice- then to Spain as Queens's physician -- and the confused romance with Lucia Bellarmi, whose family owned the Botticelli, and whose grandmother had been the model for the Venus. The romance comes to a head when they escape together, aided by the queen, from the clutches of the Inquisition. The story is two edged -- the medical aspects bring in other pioneers, Vesalius and Pare, who, with Servetus, contributed to the advancement of knowledge of pulmonary circulation and operational techniques; the romance is enhanced by the trappings of history." ----- . . . ----- 1A0B4C9D3E8F2G7 dsc00298 books royal novel romance