The Sinner's Grand Tour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sinner's Grand Tour write by Tony Perrottet. This book was released on 2011-05-10. The Sinner's Grand Tour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Grand Tour: the cultural rite of passage from London to Paris, Berlin, Venice, Florence, Rome, and down to the boot of Italy, which linked the Continent’s most spectacular artistic treasures. Sex and travel have always been intertwined, and never more so than on the classic Grand Tour of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Today the Continent is still littered with salacious remnants of that golden age, where secret boudoirs, notorious dungeons, and forbidden artifacts lured travelers all the way from London to Capri. In The Sinner’s Grand Tour, celebrated historian and travel writer Tony Perrottet sets off to discover a string of legendary sites and relics that are still kept far from public view. In southern France, an ancient text leads him inside the château of the Marquis de Sade, now owned by fashion icon Pierre Cardin. In Paris, an 1883 prostitute guide helps him discover the Belle Époque fantasy brothel Le Chabanais and the lost “sex chair” of King Edward VII. Renaissance documents in the Vatican Secret Archives point the way to the Pope’s very own apartments in Vatican City, wherein lies the fabled Stufetta del Bibbiena, a pornography-covered bathroom painted by Raphael in 1516. With his unique blend of original research, sharp wit, and hilarious anecdotes, Perrottet brings us a romping travel adventure through the scandalous backrooms of historical Europe.
Grand Tour
Grand Tour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grand Tour write by Robert F. Randall. This book was released on 2003. Grand Tour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Last of the Sinners
The Last of the Sinners - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last of the Sinners write by Lynn Shurr. This book was released on 2024-07-15. The Last of the Sinners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rex Billodeaux has his life exactly where he wants it. He has returned to New Orleans to play quarterback for Sinners. Super Bowl prospects look good and so does Dre Ames, a young woman he has known since the age of seventeen but overlooked because she has a son she gave birth to as a teen. He is about to propose when the death of the team owner throws the Sinners into turmoil. The trophy wife, who inherits the team, hates football and the city society who snubbed her. She plans to sell the team out of state and will only reconsider if Rex agrees to do her every biding and break up with Dre. He takes one for the team and signs her agreement. Will he be able to save the Sinners and return to Dre? That is the question.
Glamorous Illusions (The Grand Tour Series Book #1)
Glamorous Illusions (The Grand Tour Series Book #1) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Glamorous Illusions (The Grand Tour Series Book #1) write by Lisa T. Bergren. This book was released on 2012-06-01. Glamorous Illusions (The Grand Tour Series Book #1) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Cora Kensington learns she is the illegitimate daughter of a copper king, her life changes forever. Even as she explores Europe with her new family, she discovers that the most valuable journey is within. The first book in the Grand Tour series takes you from the farms of Montana through England and France on an adventure of forgiveness, spiritual awakening, and self-discovery.
The Evolution of the Grand Tour
The Evolution of the Grand Tour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Evolution of the Grand Tour write by Edward Chaney. This book was released on 2000. The Evolution of the Grand Tour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unlike other studies of the Grand Tour, this book deals not so much with the fully-fledged 18th-century phenomenon, but rather with the 16th and 17th centuries and the way in which the English became conscious of the Italian Renaissance and thereby discovered classical antiquity itself. Revised essays document the lives and travels of the personalities who contributed to establishing a convention which eventually came to dominate European culture. An epilogue pays tribute to Sir Harold Acton (1904-1994). Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
