Nothing prepared the young, attractive but nave Isabella, for the glamorous but treacherous world of a beauty pageant in her new life at the higher institution,

Mining the rich Venetian archives, especially the unusually detailed records of Venice's own branch of the Roman Inquisition, Guido Ruggiero provides a striking

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