The Birth of Venus: A Novel
by:
Sarah Dunant (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780679645498 (0679645497)
Publish date: March 12th 2012
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pages no: 463
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Art,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
This is a not-bad coming-of-age story set in Florence during and after Savonarola's brief but ferocious anti-secular reign over the city. The protagonist is Alessandra, age 14, individualist and would-be artist, not at all happy about taking on the more traditional woman's role that her mother and e...
‘When he finally speaks he has stopped shaking, but the effort has cost him. ‘I paint in God’s service,’ he says, with the air of a novitiate delivering a litany he has been taught but not fully understood. ‘And it is forbidden for me to talk with women.’ Alessandra Cecci is not quite fifteen when...
Overall I give 3.5 stars. The story blended historical fact very well with the fictional story of the main character. It gave enough detail but not so much that it was like reading non-fiction. The writer did an excellent job of inserting the MC and her family into the events of the time period that...
Deja vu. I started reading this today and realized that I read this before although I don't remember when, but I remember bits and dribbles. It was first published in 2003, so it wasn't so long ago. In any case, it was long before GR.
We meet Alessandra Cecchi, the protagonist and narrator of this first person novel, who we meet as a young girl, only fourteen-years of age in 1492 when the book starts. She lived, as the curse goes, in interesting times. Alessandra was raised in Florence at the height of the Renaissance, the city o...
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