The Sixteen Pleasures

The Sixteen Pleasures
ISBN-10
0385314698
ISBN-13
9780385314695
Category
Fiction
Pages
369
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Random House Digital, Inc.
Author
Robert Hellenga

Description

The discovery of an old book of erotica in an Italian convent by a beautiful twenty-nine-year-old book conservator from America becomes her introduction to the sensuous, sometimes dangerous life of Florence. Reprint.

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