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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. Soon her love of art and her lively independence
are luring her into closer involvement with all sorts of taboo
areas of life. On excursions into the streets of night-time
Florence she observes a terrible evil stalking the city and
witnesses the rise of the fiery young priest, Savanarola, who has
set out to rid the city of vice, richness, even art itself.
Alessandra must make crucial decisions about the shape of her adult
life, as Florence itself must choose between the old ways of the
luxury-loving Medicis and the asceticism of Savanorola. And through
it all, there is the painter, whose love will change
everything.
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Sarah Dunant is a cultural commentator, award-winning thriller
writer and author of a trilogy of novels set in renaissance Italy
exploring women''s lives through art, sex and religion.
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