
The birth of Venus: love and death in Florence
Littérature générale (romans), Histoire (romans)
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from Northern Europe to decorate the walls of the family chapel in their Florentine palazzo. Alessandra is drawn into the life of… a city where the new freedoms of the mind rub shoulders with the old sins of the flesh. Some descriptions of sex. 2003.