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The Birth of Venus: A Novel
de Sarah Dunant
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0812968972
- ISBN 13
- 9780812968972
- Librería
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Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Random House Trade Paperbacks. Used - Good. A sound copy with only light wear. Overall a solid copy at a great price!
Sinopsis
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter's abilities.But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra's parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola's reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra's married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art.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.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Librería
- More Than Words Inc.
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- BOS-P-11e-00616
- Título
- The Birth of Venus: A Novel
- Autor
- Sarah Dunant
- Estado del libro
- Used - Good
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0812968972
- ISBN 13
- 9780812968972
- Editorial
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Lugar de publicación
- Westminster, Maryland, U.s.a.
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- November 30, 2004
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Sobre el vendedor
More Than Words Inc.
Miembro de Biblio desde 2016
Waltham, Massachusetts
Sobre More Than Words Inc.
More Than Words empowers youth who are in foster care, court-involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business. MTW believes that when system-involved youth are challenged with authentic and increasing responsibilities in a business setting, and are given high expectations and a culture of support, they can and will address personal barriers to success, create concrete action plans for their lives, and become contributing members of society. More Than Words began as an online bookselling training program for youth in DCF custody in 2004 and opened its vibrant bookstore on Moody St in Waltham in 2005 and added its Starbucks coffee bar in 2008. MTW replicated its model in the South End of Boston in 2011, thereby doubling the number of youth served annually.
