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Gr 7-10 As the daughter of a Venetian nobleman in 1592, 14-year-old Donata lives a sheltered and prescribed life. According to custom, her oldest sister will marry, either she or her identical twin Laura will stay home as the maiden aunt to care for her brother's children, and the other will go to a convent with their younger sisters. The girls spend their days doing chores, winding yarn onto giant bobbins for the family's wool trade, studying music, or going to parties where their oldest sister is examined as a marriage prosp...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Donata Aurelia Mocenigo, a sheltered nobleman's daughter in sixteenth-century Venice, longs for the freedom to explore the city that her older brothers enjoy. She loves her family and appreciates the luxuries her high station brings her, but she feels imprisoned in her family's palazzo and dreads her fate: conventionally, because only one daughter of each noble family marries, she and her twin Laura, both younger sisters, will likely end up in a convent. Desperate for a wider...Log In or Sign Up to Read More