The Birth Of Venus by Sarah Dunant - ISBN: 9781844089123
Paperback
Florence blooms, art wars, and a forbidden love ignites.

The Birth Of Venus

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  • Paperback

    432 pages

  • Release Date

    25 March 2013

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Summary

Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to adorn the walls of the new family chapel. She is fascinated by his talents and envious of his abilities and opportunities to paint to the glory of God. Soon her love of art and her lively independence are luring her into closer involvement with all sorts of taboo areas of life. On excursions into the streets of night-time Florence she observes a terrible evil stalking the c…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781844089123
ISBN-10:1844089126
Author:Sarah Dunant
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:432
Release Date:25 March 2013
Weight:340g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 28mm
About The Author

Sarah Dunant

Sarah Dunant is the author of six crime novels for which she won two Silver Daggers. Cultural commentator - for many years she presented The Late Show - she was editor of War of the Words (Virago 1994). Her two previous novels, Transgressions and Mapping the Edge, were the subject of major acclaim.

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