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The Birth of Venus: Love and Death in Florence: A Novel
by Dunant, Sarah
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine, Not Price Clipped
- ISBN 10
- 0316725498
- ISBN 13
- 9780316725491
- Seller
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London, England: Little, Brown, 2003. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Later Printing. Signed by Sarah Dunant on the title page with no inscription; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition.
Synopsis
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.The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, 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, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Hourglass Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020168
- Title
- The Birth of Venus: Love and Death in Florence: A Novel
- Author
- Dunant, Sarah
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine, Not Price Clipped
- Edition
- Later Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0316725498
- ISBN 13
- 9780316725491
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- British Fiction
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