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The Birth of Venus

Sarah Dunant

Paperback | Pages: 427 pages

Rating: 3.81 | 90254 Users | 3210 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Birth of Venus
ISBN:	0812968972 (ISBN13: 9780812968972)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Alessandra Cecci, Tomaso Cecci, Cristoforo Langella, Painter, Girolamo Savonarola
Setting:	Italy Florence(Italy)

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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.

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Title	:	The Birth of Venus
Author	:	Sarah Dunant
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 427 pages
Published	:	November 30th 2004 by Random House (first published March 6th 2003)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. Italy. Art. Romance. Adult

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After reading this for the second time I wish I could give it higher than five stars. I discovererd new things about this book that I hadn't caught before. Such a wonderful book and I can't wait to read it for the third time!This is an absolutely amazing book. The author has done a lot of research and it shows in her writing. This is a historical fiction. The imagery is wonderful and you really get wrapped up in the lives of the Character. Now that I have been studying Mythology I would like to

A good solid 4.5. This was a wonderful escape from the 21st century, which was exactly what I needed as I try to ignore the news of the day a little bit (Im on a break, or trying). Of course, Florence in the late 15th/ early 16th century had its share of problems: a rising theocratic autocracy, brutal persecution of LGBT communities, epidemics, a lot of patriarchal BS . . . . oh, wait. Well, anyway, a wonderfully-written and well-plotted book that fully engaged me in its world and had me rooting

A lovely debut novel about the Italian Renaissance. An old nun dies and her habit is stripped away to reveal a sensual and scandalous tattoo - but this is only the beginning. Alessandra is a girl of fourteen in fifteenth-century Florence, mesmerized by art and life when she should be preoccupied with marriage and suitors. Her imagination is fired by an intense young painter, but marriage brings her friendship and maturity as she realizes she has been wed as a shield to a kind but homosexual

As an avid historical fiction fan, I picked this book up hoping to learn a few things about renaissance Florence. Instead, I got a chick lit story set in an exotic locale. The book wasn't exactly a let-down, but it was finished and quickly forgotten about. While I wouldn't urge you to stay away from it, any one looking for a serious work of historical fiction will be sorely disappointed.

Renaissance Italy or specifically Medici's Florence is a fascinating historical era, although one probably safest experienced as an armchair explorer. Majority of the book takes place during the particularly turbulent 1494/1495, years of Savanarola, Night Police and its accompanying fervent madness, spectacular time rendered vividly, claustrophobically and stunningly by the author. Her other clever choice is the main protagonist, a woman who dared and succeeded against all odds to live a life on

For some reason, I always feel the need to apologize when giving a high rating to a book that is not marvelously written from a technical standpoint--I think I've been privy to too many technical writing conversations. While this book is not a classic of literary style, it was a very good read. Its strengths rest in its emotional honesty at difficult moments. Dunant has an eye for those small defining gestures that convey volumes. As a historical novel, it also covers some interesting territory.

After reading this for the second time I wish I could give it higher than five stars. I discovererd new things about this book that I hadn't caught before. Such a wonderful book and I can't wait to read it for the third time!This is an absolutely amazing book. The author has done a lot of research and it shows in her writing. This is a historical fiction. The imagery is wonderful and you really get wrapped up in the lives of the Character. Now that I have been studying Mythology I would like to