The Birth of Venus: A Novel
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ISBN: 0739310526 / Publisher: Random House Audio, February 2004
Turning fifteen in Renaissance Florence, Alessandra Cecchi becomes intoxicated with the works of a young painter whom her father has brought to the city to decorate the family's Florentine palazzo.
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Turning fifteen in Renaissance Florence, Alessandra Cecchi becomes intoxicated with the works of a young painter who her father has brought to the city to decorate the family's Florentine palazzo, a situation that is complicated by her unwanted arranged marriage to an older man and a battle between the Medici family and the fundamentalist followers of Savonarola. Simultaneous.
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