The Birth of Venus
by Sarah Dunant | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0812968972 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0812968972 Global Overview for this book
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Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter's abilities.
But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra's parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola's reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra's married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art.
But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra's parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola's reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra's married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art.
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Never Judge a Book by Its Cover Challenge, 2012 Week 10 (First Names)
Never Judge a Book by Its Cover Challenge, 2012 Week 10 (First Names)
This book was found by a friend and passed on to me. It looks to be very interesting! I will release it far away in my travels, most likely Costa Rica.
Journal Entry 4 by SeaDew at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) in Atlanta, Georgia USA on Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Released 12 yrs ago (4/18/2012 UTC) at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) in Atlanta, Georgia USA
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A fascinating book! Details turbulent thoughts in a turbulent time.
