The Woman Who Defied Kings
The Life and Times of Dona Gracia Nasi--A Jewish Leader During the Renaissance
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Publication
2002-06-01 - Paragon House Publishers
Language
English
Word Count
149,000 words, Guess
Page Count
596 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-101557788057
- ISBN-139781557788054
- Goodreads1849366
- LibraryThing378620
- Library of Congress Control Number2001051161
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number48014700
- Better World Books9781557788054
- Open LibraryOL8601824M
Classifications
- LCCDS135.M43 N372 2002
- LCCDS135.M43N372 2002
Description
"One wintry day early in 1535, merchant banker Francisco Mendes lay dying in his whitewashed, tile-roofed home near the royal palace in Lisbon. It was a pivotal moment for his elegant wife Beatrice, later known as Dona Gracia Nasi. The death of Francisco, one of Europe's wealthiest spice traders, offered Dona Gracia, still in her twenties, an unsettling mix of promise and peril.". "So begins the remarkable rise to power of one of the greatest Jewish women of all time; an international woman banker who used her family's fortune and access to the royal courts of Europe to save thousands of her people from torture, ruin and death at the brutal hands of Inquisition officials."--BOOK JACKET.
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