A story of forbidden love in Renaissance Rome, A Splendid Sin is the debut novel of Alana Bolton Cooke. Michaelangelo Buonarrotti, the famous painter and sculptor, falls in love with his muse, a Roman noble, Tommaso de Cavalieri, and their relationship is played out during the painting of the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel.
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A story of forbidden love in Renaissance Rome, A Splendid Sin is the debut novel of Alana Bolton Cooke. Michaelangelo Buonarrotti, the famous painter and sculptor, falls in love with his muse, a Roman noble, Tommaso de Cavalieri, and their relationship is played out during the painting of the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel.
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Behind the masterpiece was a love that defined Renaissance art.Michaelangelo di Lodovico Buonarrotti hs risen into Rome's artistic elite and the ailing Pope Clement commissions him to paint The Last Judgement.When the artist Tomasso, a young nobleman, becomes his muse and inspiration. Michaelangelo must contend with the conflict between his growing love and his fear of eternal damnation. Rumours of their relationship head the paranoid Cardinal de Cesena to bribe members of Michaelangelo's household to discover the truth behind the whispers.Can Michaelangelo hide his feeling from both the church and himself, or will the Last Judgement destroy him?
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'Alana Bolton Cooke paints a psychological narrative in which, like Michaelangelo's Last Judgement, closely woven but discrete fragments come together to tell a bigger picture. Although it is impossible to know exactly how people in the past thought, her portrayal of the philosophical, religious and physical complexities of male love in Renaissance Italy is thoroughly convincing. Readers cannot but come away from this book felling that they have experienced the texture of the time and nature of the artist.' (Peter Guilderdale, Associate Head, School of Art and Design, AUT)
About the Author
After working s a registered nurse in New Zealand and England, Alana went to University and graduated with the MA in English Literature before completing a Master of Creative Writing at AUT. Her thesis was an historical novel based on the Frist Duke of Marlborough's military exploits in the early 1700s. She has had articles or stories printed in the New Zealand Woman's Weekly, the Christchurch Press and The Listener. A Splendid Sin is her debut novel.
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