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The Birth of Venus : a novel / Sarah Dunant.

Author: Dunant, Sarah, author.

Note: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, 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.

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Author:
Dunant, Sarah, author.
Subject:
Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498 -- Fiction.
Arranged marriage -- Fiction.
Women painters -- Fiction.
Married women -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Painters -- Fiction.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737 -- Fiction.
Index Term:
Historical fiction.