The birth of Venus : love and death in Florence / Sarah Dunant

Dunant, Sarah
The birth of Venus : love and death in Florence / Sarah Dunant [A]. -- London : Virago, 2004

Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-413).

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northen Europe to decorate the family chapel in their Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talented for drawing, Alexandra is intoxicated by his talent.
ISBN: 9781844080359

1. SAVONAROLA, GIROLAMO; 2. ARRANGED MARRIAGE -- FICTION; 3. WOMEN PAINTERS -- FICTION; 4. MARRIED WOMEN -- FICTION; 5. TEENAGE GIRLS -- FICTION; 6. FLORENCE (ITALY) -- HISTORY; 7. HISTORICAL NOVELS; 8. HISTORICAL FICTION

(1) Inv.: S11549 S.T.: HISTORICAL NOVELS DUN