The Resource The birth of Venus : a novel, Sarah Dunant, (electronic resource)
The birth of Venus : a novel, Sarah Dunant, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- From its first arresting sentence, Sarah Dunant's magnificent novel embroils the reader in the coming-of-age story of Alessandra Cecchi, a fourteen-year-old girl with a strong will and a passion for painting. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain's most innovative writers of literary suspense. Alessandra 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Random House trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 403 pages)
- Note
-
- Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Little, Brown in 2003
- Includes a Reader's guide, Questions for discussion (p. [401]-403)
- Isbn
- 9781588364425
- Link
-
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- Label
- The birth of Venus : a novel
- Title
- The birth of Venus
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Sarah Dunant
- Subject
-
- Arranged marriage -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Fiction
- Fiction
- Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Italy -- Florence
- Married women -- Fiction
- 1421 - 1737
- Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498
- Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498 -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
- Women painters -- Fiction
- Painters -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- From its first arresting sentence, Sarah Dunant's magnificent novel embroils the reader in the coming-of-age story of Alessandra Cecchi, a fourteen-year-old girl with a strong will and a passion for painting. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain's most innovative writers of literary suspense. Alessandra 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
- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dunant, Sarah
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR6054.U45756
- LC item number
- B58 2004eb
- Literary form
- novels
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Savonarola, Girolamo
- Savonarola, Girolamo
- Arranged marriage
- Women painters
- Married women
- Teenage girls
- Painters
- Fiction
- Florence (Italy)
- Italy
- Label
- The birth of Venus : a novel, Sarah Dunant, (electronic resource)
- Link
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- Note
-
- Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Little, Brown in 2003
- Includes a Reader's guide, Questions for discussion (p. [401]-403)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-397)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- Random House trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 403 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781588364425
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Publisher number
- EB00165836
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- E6CBBA13-ADC8-49B7-9EF9-8C3DBBC0B309
- System control number
-
- 2065338
- (OCoLC)297107546
- (OCoLC)ocn297107546
- 2065338
- Label
- The birth of Venus : a novel, Sarah Dunant, (electronic resource)
- Link
-
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- Note
-
- Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Little, Brown in 2003
- Includes a Reader's guide, Questions for discussion (p. [401]-403)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-397)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- Random House trade paperback edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 403 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781588364425
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Publisher number
- EB00165836
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- E6CBBA13-ADC8-49B7-9EF9-8C3DBBC0B309
- System control number
-
- 2065338
- (OCoLC)297107546
- (OCoLC)ocn297107546
- 2065338
Subject
- Arranged marriage -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Fiction
- Fiction
- Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- History
- Italy -- Florence
- Married women -- Fiction
- 1421 - 1737
- Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498
- Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498 -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Fiction
- Women painters -- Fiction
- Painters -- Fiction
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