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...
It wasn't a work of great literature, but it gave me a window into a small part of the history of Florence - the time of the Bonfire of the Vanities. A young woman of a wealthy family must be married off even though she'd really rather run off and be a painter. She does the best she can within the...
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