Artemisia
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788845250996 (8845250997)
Publish date: September 2006
Publisher: Bompiani
Pages no: 200
Edition language: Italian
A biography in novel form about Artemisia Gentileschi, the Renaissance painter who survived being put on trial following her rape to work long and productively for many years in Naples and elsewhere. Banti's first draft of this novel was destroyed during the fighting in WWII, so that loss becomes pa...