Leonardo's Swans
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385517065 (0385517068)
Publish date: January 10th 2006
Publisher: Doubleday
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Art,
Historical Romance,
Italian Literature,
Art History,
17th Century,
15th Century
First Line - Isabella spreads her arms like angels' wings over her sister's cold marble form.Just had a zip down the ratings for this and it looks like I will be skimming through quite a lot. This is not Historical Fiction - it is pedestrian chick lit manouvered into a historical back drop. Could ha...
Reading this recent historical fiction novel was a very strange experience – it's based on the same historical facts as another book, ‘Duchess of Milan' by Michael Ennis – which I love. So reading this book was almost like re-reading ‘Duchess'... but feeling that everything, has, somehow, changed......
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