Marietta: A Maid of Venice: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Marietta: A Maid of Venice, credited to Francis Marion Crawford, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Marietta: A Maid of Venice by Francis Marion Crawford. Read in English by Michele Fry. This swash-buckling, romantic story of Zorzi Ballarin and Angelo Beroviero, master glass-blowers of Murano, Italy in the 1500's, is not entirely fiction. Many of the works of these artizans are preserved in the Museum of Murano, including their discovery of the clear glass we know as "crystal". Giovanni Beroviero, the lesser artist and jealous son, did indeed write the damning letter which brought Zorzi to trial before the Council of Ten (the original letter is still preserved). The treasured colored glass formulas of Paolo Godi are real. Arisa the Georgian slave mistress is fictional, but beautiful Eastern slaves were indeed bought and sold in Italy for many centuries. The patriarchal society that kept women walled in was real, and the myriad gondolas plying the canals, and the palaces of Venice in which much of the story takes place, are still there. Francis M. Crawford has woven a riveting tale of intrigue that never slacks off from first word to last. ( ~ Author's note and Michele Fry, Soloist)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Marietta: A Maid of Venice
• Author credits: Francis Marion Crawford
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 11:34:51

Catalogue topics

• Italy
• venice
• 15th century
• glassblowing
• glass blowing
• angelo barovier
• zorzi ballerin
• glass making

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 31:54
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 31:07
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 29:35
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 29:47
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 27:38
6. 06 - Chapter 6 — 29:09
7. 07 - Chapter 7 — 29:19
8. 08 - Chapter 8 — 26:55
9. 09 - Chapter 9 — 29:22
10. 10 - Chapter 10 — 28:43
11. 11 - Chapter 11 — 30:05
12. 12 - Chapter 12 — 30:34
13. 13 - Chapter 13 — 28:58
14. 14 - Chapter 14 — 29:12
15. 15 - Chapter 15 — 30:06
16. 16 - Chapter 16 — 29:22
17. 17 - Chapter 17 — 27:37
18. 18 - Chapter 18 — 29:57
19. 19 - Chapter 19 — 29:46
20. 20 - Chapter 20 — 29:39
21. 21 - Chapter 21 — 30:55
22. 22 - Chapter 22 — 35:20
23. 23 - Chapter 23 — 23:27
24. 24 - Chapter 24 — 16:23

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