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by Donna Jo Napoli


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  D’Elia, Anthony F. The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.

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  Kalas, Rayna. “The Technology of Reflection: Renaissance Mirrors of Steel and Glass.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 32, no. 3 (2002): 519–542. doi:10.1215/​10829636-32-3-519.

  Labalme, Patricia H., and Laura Sanguineti White. Translations by Linda Carroll. “How to (and How Not to) Get Married in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Selections from the Diaries of Marin Sanudo).” Renaissance Quarterly (1999): 43–72.

  Laven, Mary. Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent. New York: Penguin Books, 2002.

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  McKee, Sally. “Domestic Slavery in Renaissance Italy.” Slavery and Abolition 29, no. 3 (2008): 305–326. doi:10.1080/​01440390802267774.

  Melchoir-Bonnet, Sabine. The Mirror: A History. New York: Routledge, 2001.

  Moritz, Fabienne, Patricia Compagnon, Isabelle Guery Kaliszczak, Yann Kaliszczak, Valérie Caliskan, and Christophe Girault. “Severe Acute Poisoning with Homemade Aconitum napellus capsules: Toxicokinetic and Clinical Data.”Clinical Toxicology 43, no. 7 (2005): 873–876. doi:10.1080/​15563650500357594.

  O’Bryan, Robin. “Grotesque Bodies, Princely Delight: Dwarfs in Italian Renaissance Court Imagery.” Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 1, no. 2 (2012): 252–288.

  Palmer, Richard. “ ‘In this our lightye and learned tyme’: Italian baths in the era of the Renaissance.” Medical History Supplement 10 (1990): 14–22.

  Ruggiero, Guido. “Law and Punishment in Early Renaissance Venice.” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 69, no. 2 (1978): 243–256.

  ———. “The Status of Physicians and Surgeons in Renaissance Venice.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 36, no. 2 (1981): 168–184.

  Shimizu, Y. “Paralytic Shellfish Poisons.” In Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe/Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products, 235–264. Vienna: Springer, 1984.

  Venerandi-Pirri, I., and P. Zuffardi. “The Tin Deposit of Monte Valerio (Tuscany): New Factual Observations for a Genetic Discussion.” Rendiconti Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia 37 (1981): 529–39.

  Verità, Marco, Alessandro Renier, and Sandro Zecchin. “Chemical Analyses of Ancient Glass Findings Excavated in the Venetian Lagoon.” Journal of Cultural Heritage 3, no. 4 (2002): 261–271.

  Wheeler, Jo. “Stench in sixteenth-century Venice.” In The City and the Senses: Urban Culture Since 1500, edited by Alexander Cowan and Jill Steward, 25–38. Hants, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007.

  Thank you first and always to Barry Furrow, and to Brenda Bowen, Maggie Christ, Ivy Drexel, Sharon Friedler, Elena Furrow, Nick Furrow, Alice Galenson, Ashley Hoyle, Lorraine Leeson, Meg McWilliams-Piraino, Kate Nicholes, Nathan Sanders, and Rachel Sutton-Spence for comments on earlier drafts and troubleshooting details of plot with me. And a crystal-white thank-you to my constant cheer squad and editorial team, Alex Borbolla, Dana Carey, Sarah Eckstein, Teria Jennings, Alexandra West, Hannah Weverka, and, especially, Wendy Lamb, who said, “Why not Venice?” Many thanks, as well, to copy editors Heather Lockwood Hughes and Colleen Fellingham for their care and attention to detail, and to kid-ethic.com and Shannon Plunkett in the art department for the striking cover and interior design.

  Donna Jo Napoli has been publishing stories for children and young adults since 1991 and has about eighty books in print, including Alligator Bayou, The King of Mulberry Street, and Daughter of Venice, available from Wendy Lamb Books.

  Donna Jo is a dual citizen of the United States and Italy, where many of her stories are set. She lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, with her husband. Visit her online at donnajonapoli.com.

 

 

 


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