{"id":18902,"date":"2013-03-11T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=18902"},"modified":"2013-03-07T11:39:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:39:36","slug":"the-book-of-madness-and-cures-by-regina-omelveny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-book-of-madness-and-cures-by-regina-omelveny\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Madness and Cures by Regina O’Melveny"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For Dr. Gabriella Mondini, there is no other option besides following in her father’s footsteps into a life\u00a0of medicine in Regina O’Melveny’s debut, The Book of Madness and Cures<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 She is passionate about healing the citizens of Venice.\u00a0For a woman residing in\u00a0this part of the word\u00a0in the late 16th Century this proves to be a challenging feat.\u00a0 In the male dominated Italian medical society, Gabriella gains credibility with her father’s colleagues\u00a0by\u00a0assisting him with research\u00a0on “The Book of Diseases<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

A few years prior, Gabriella’s father, the elder Dr. Mondini, disappeared\u00a0unexpectedly with only\u00a0an occasional letter as to his whereabouts.\u00a0 In addition to the sporadic\u00a0correspondence, his writings are cryptic and give little clue to Gabriella and her mother of his\u00a0condition, which\u00a0has a tendency to gravitate toward madness.\u00a0 With the prospect of continuing her medical career in jeopardy without her father’s guidance, Gabriella, her maid and a few additional servants embark on a journey to solve the mystery of what happened to her father.\u00a0 The journey takes them across Europe to France, Germany, England, Spain and south to the tip of Morocco, all the while encountering danger while traveling and\u00a0encountering locals who met her father and are able to provide clues to the group of travelers.<\/p>\n

While in Morocco, Gabriella finds out the shocking truth about her father, his nearly completed book on diseases and her own future.\u00a0 O’Melveny’s debut provides a rich look at late 16th century day to day life, the logistics of cross continent travels and the lives of women during this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Dr. Gabriella Mondini, there is no other option besides following in her father’s footsteps into a life\u00a0of medicine in Regina O’Melveny’s debut, The Book of Madness and Cures.\u00a0 She is passionate about healing the citizens of Venice.\u00a0For a woman residing in\u00a0this part of the word\u00a0in the late 16th Century[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361,8],"tags":[2219,358,1412,2220,1169,1706,613],"class_list":["post-18902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-staff-picks","tag-16th-century","tag-authors","tag-europe","tag-fathers-and-daughters","tag-medicine","tag-renaissance","tag-venice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-4US","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18902"}],"version-history":[{"count":67,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19197,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18902\/revisions\/19197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}