The Birth Of Venus - A Novel
Language: English
Published by Random House Inc -Vintage Books, New York, 2004
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397 Pages. Second Printing of the First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket price 21.95 is unclipped and Brodart protected. Dust jacket art is a detail of Saint Barbara from Sistine Madonna 1512. This is the first historical novel from one of Britain's most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, relgion and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of her beloved city. alessandra Cecchi is not quite 15 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 chld of the Renaissance with a precocious mind and a talent fro drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter's abilities. But the burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra's parents arrange her marrige to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile Foorence 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, wit its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola's reactionary followers. Played out agianst 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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- Title
- The Birth Of Venus - A Novel
- Author
- Dunant, Sarah
- Publisher
- Random House Inc -Vintage Books, New York
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hard Back
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1400060737
- ISBN 13
- 9781400060733
- Illustrator
- Raphael - Dust Jacket Art
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Dimensions
- 5 1/2" X 9 1/2"
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