Ebook {Epub PDF} The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain's most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city. The Birth of Venus. SKU: $ Authors: Sarah Dunant. Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to adorn the walls of the new family chapel. She is fascinated by his talents and envious of his abilities and opportunities to paint to the glory of God. The Birth of Venus: A Novel (Reader's Circle): Dunant, Sarah: bltadwin.ru: Books. Buy new: $ FREE delivery: Saturday, Aug 21 on orders over $ shipped by Amazon. Ships from: bltadwin.ru Sold by: bltadwin.ru List Price: $ Details. Save: $ (41%)Cited by: 7.

The Birth of Venus. Sarah Dunant. Little, Brown Book Group Limited, - Arranged marriage - pages. 87 Reviews. Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to adorn the walls of the new family chapel. She is fascinated by his talents and envious of his abilities and. The Birth of Venus. by Sarah Dunant. 1. Alessandra has the will and the talent to paint. She does not have the training or the social opportunity. How far does The Birth of Venus explain why, in the great roll call of artistic geniuses of the Renaissance, there are no names of women? 2. The image of the serpent with a human head is a motif that. Read free book excerpt from The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant, page 1 of 4.

Sarah Dunant's gorgeous and mesmerizing novel, Birth of Venus, draws readers into a turbulent 15th-century Florence, a time when the lavish city, steeped in years of Medici family luxury, is suddenly besieged by plague, threat of invasion, and the righteous wrath of a fundamentalist monk. Dunant masterfully blends fact and fiction, seamlessly interweaving Florentine history with the coming-of-age story of a spirited year-old girl. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city. The Birth of Venus. by Sarah Dunant. pp, Little, Brown, £ Genre writing has provided fertile ground for feminist fiction. Detective stories, thrillers and historical novels have been.