I really enjoyed this novel by Sarah Dunant about pampered teenager Alessandra Cecchi in 15th century Florence. The story and the characters are beautiful, intriguing, and I felt a real sense of the history of the period.
Alessandra is the daughter of a wealthy merchant, and she is beautiful, brilliant, and artistically talented. She's also rather naive. But when her parents marry her off to the much older Cristoforo, her eyes are opened to the wider world. Along the way she also finds herself drawn to the painter her parents hired to paint their chapel.
Meantime things in Florence are changing, from the lush life of the Medicis to the extreme piety of Savonarola. Alessandra and Cristoforo must do what they can to survive, and to be able to live life the way they want to live it.
The Birth of Venus
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