Silent Duchess

Dacia Maraini

earliest edition we have, 2000 Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 2014 264 pages

"Palermo, Sicily. In the Piazza Marina a large crowd has gathered to witness the public hanging of a young brigand. Duke Signoretto di Fontanasalsa, leader of the Noble Fathers of the Inquisition, is in attendance, and with him is his deaf-mute daughter, Marianna, who is seven years old. The child watches as the rope is slipped round the prisoner's neck; there is a roll of drums and the hangman kicks away the box on...

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Silent Duchess edition · 2014 · Feminist Press at The City University of New York · 264 pages · 9781283276894
Silent Duchess edition · 2010 · Arcadia Books Limited · 319 pages · 9781906413729
Silent Duchess edition · 2010 · Arcadia Books Limited · 300 pages · 9781908129376
Silent Duchess edition · 2000 · Feminist Press at The City University of New York · 268 pages · 9781558617834

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