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Birth of Venus

By: Dunant, Sarah

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 371811

ISBN: 0804176353

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

The Birth of Venus: A Novel (Reader's Circle)

By: Dunant, Sarah

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: November 2004

Seller ID: 345419

ISBN: 0812968972

Condition: Used - Like New

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 seizi...
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