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The Birth of Venus

CD - unabridged
(12 CDs)
Product Number: CU264
Released: 01 Mar, 2006
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781845059323
Narrator(s): Laurence Bouvard
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous father brings a young painter back from Holland to adorn the new family chapel. Fascinated by his ability she is lured into closer involvement. On the streets of Florence she observes a terrible evil stalking the city and a fiery priest, who has set out to rid the city of vice, even art itself.

Author(s): Sarah Dunant
Original Publish Date: 01 Mar, 2006

Professional reviews

"'Dunant throws out ideas about sex, art and the divine with Renaissance-style sprezzatura.' INDEPENDENT 'Dunant has created a vivid and compellingly believable picture of Renaissance Florence... her research has obviously been meticulous... a magnificent novel.' TELEGRAPH 'A beautiful serpent of a book, seductive dangerous and full of wise guile, the most brilliant novel yet from a writer of powerful historical imagination and wicked literary gifts.' SIMON SCHAMA"

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