EBOOK Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant

EBOOK Birth of Venus
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Autor: Sarah Dunant

 Wydawnictwo: Random House
ISBN: 9781588364425
EAN: 199EBAD9EB
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Data wydania: 2004
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A Novel
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.BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Sarah Dunant's Blood & Beauty.

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