Project Gutenberg 2007-11-03 Public domain in the USA. 74 Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion) 1854 1909 Crawford, Francis Marion Stradella Reading ease score: 73.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Bruce Albrecht, Barbara Kosker, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Stradella" by F. Marion Crawford is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story is set in Venice and revolves around the lives of a wealthy senator, Michele Pignaver, and his niece, Ortensia, who is an accomplished young woman but is forced into an unwanted marriage with her uncle. Central to the plot is the arrival of the talented musician and composer Alessandro Stradella, whose presence threatens the senator’s plans and ignites a passionate and tumultuous romance with Ortensia. The opening of the novel sets the stage for a complex interweaving of music, love, and societal expectations. It introduces us to Senator Pignaver, a man of culture and ambition, who, having decided to marry his orphaned niece, views the arrangement as a favor done for her, not realizing her inner turmoil. As Ortensia grapples with her feelings about her forthcoming marriage and her growing attraction to Stradella, the stage is ripe for conflicts involving artistic integrity, the constraints of society, and the pursuit of true love. The dynamic among these characters hints at a story filled with emotional tension and the struggles against oppressive social norms. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Stradella, Alessandro, 1639-1682 -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 716379 708157 2024-10-10T07:48:17.721482 2023-09-10T10:29:02.307321 text/html text/html 714966 2007-11-03T13:24:16 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1080336 2007-11-03T13:24:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1150356 2024-10-10T07:48:30.496420 application/epub+zip 1155772 2024-10-10T07:48:20.831448 application/epub+zip 355123 2024-10-10T07:48:19.034439 application/epub+zip 1388547 2024-10-10T07:48:37.289345 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1334552 2024-10-10T07:48:28.597398 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 507581 2022-09-11T04:54:02.847665 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 653646 653520 2024-10-10T07:48:15.546453 2023-09-10T10:29:00.535271 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 653566 2007-11-03T13:24:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 244685 2007-11-03T13:24:18 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 653561 2007-11-03T13:24:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 244647 2007-11-03T13:24:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21213 2024-10-10T07:48:37.434333 application/rdf+xml 11547 2024-10-10T07:48:19.598577 image/jpeg 3139 2024-10-10T07:48:19.315430 image/jpeg 1150214 2024-10-10T07:48:17.806449 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia