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Author:

Dunant, Sarah.

Title:

The birth of Venus : a novel / Sarah Dunant.

Edition:

Random House trade pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Random House Trade Paperbacks,

Copyright Date:

2004, c2003

Description:

xv, 397 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Florence (Italy)--History--1421-1737--Fiction.
Savonarola, Girolamo,--1452-1498--Fiction.
Arranged marriage--Fiction.
Women painters--Fiction.
Married women--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Painters--Fiction.
Florence (Italy)--History--Fiction.
Savonarola, Girolamo,--1452-1498--Fiction.
Marriage--Fiction.
Women painters--Fiction.
Wives--Fiction.
Teenagers--Fiction.
Girls--Fiction.
Painters--Fiction.
Historical fiction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

Alessandra Cecchi becomes enchanted with a young painter her father has brought back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo, but their relationship is interrupted when Alessandra's parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy older man.

Series:

Reader's circle

ISBN:

0812968972
9780812968972

Locations:

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CUPC586 -- Columbus Junction Public Library (Columbus Junction)

SWPB124 -- Dumont Community Library (Dumont)

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ARPC277 -- Leon Public Library (Leon)

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