The Brothers Carburi
分類: 图书,进口原版书,Literature & Fiction(文学与虚构类),Genre Fiction(类型小说),Historical,
品牌: Harbouri
基本信息·出版社:BLOOMSBURY
·页码:320 页
·出版日期:2002年11月
·ISBN:074755708X
·International Standard Book Number:074755708X
·条形码:9780747557081
·EAN:9780747557081
·装帧:平装
·正文语种:英语
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内容简介Three brothers, born in the 18th century on the Greek island of Cephalonia, were to spread their wings and soar to impressive heights in three professions. Giambattista was a medical paragon of legendary concentration, who became the physician to Italian and French royalty; Marco, the middle son, had a chemistry laboratory in Italy that was famed throughout Europe; and Marino, after strangling a lover in Venice, fled to St. Petersburg, where he became a celebrated engineer, executing an unthinkable feat for the Queen of all Russias. This is a vivid, elegantly-written portrait of 18th-century Europe and the new scientific promise of the age.