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| 020 | _a9781400060733 | ||
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| 100 | 1 | _aDunant, Sarah | |
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_aThe birth of Venus _ba novel _c/ Sarah Dunant |
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_aNew York _b: Random House _c, c2003. |
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_a397 p. _c; 25 cm. |
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| 500 | _aLocated in the Gloria Grant Room - special collection of SMA authors. | ||
| 520 | _aAlessandra 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. 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. | ||
| 546 | _aEnglish. | ||
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_aSavonarola, Girolamo _d(1452 - 1498) _v--Fiction |
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_aArranged marriage _v--Fiction |
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_aWomen painters _v-Fiction |
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_aTeenage girls _v--Fiction |
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_aMarried women _v--Fiction |
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_aFlorence (Italy) _x-History _y-1421-1737 _v--Fiction |
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| 655 | 4 | _aHistorical fiction | |
| 830 | 0 | _aSan Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--Author | |
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