The most beautiful woman in Florence : a story of Botticelli / Alyssa Palombo.
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TextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: 309 pages ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781250071507
- 125007150X
- Vespucci, Simonetta, approximately 1453-1476 -- Fiction
- Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510 -- Fiction
- Medici, House of -- Fiction
- Artists' models -- Italy -- Florence -- Fiction
- Painters -- Italy -- Florence -- Fiction
- Nobility -- Italy -- Florence -- Fiction
- Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737 -- Fiction
- 813/.6Â 23
- PS3619.A3564Â M67 2017
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Coffeyville Public Library Adult Fiction | Coffeyville Public Library | Adult Books | F PALOMBO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 38670101473532 | ||
| Book | Iola Public Library Adult Fiction | Iola Public Library | Adult Books | F Palombo, Alyssa (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34311002642693 |
Includes discussion questions.
Includes excerpt from the author's book: The violinist of Venice (pages [305]-309).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-296).
"A girl as beautiful as Simonetta Cattaneo never wants for marriage proposals in 15th Century Italy, but she jumps at the chance to marry Marco Vespucci. Marco is young, handsome and well-educated. Not to mention he is one of the powerful Medici family's favored circle. Even before her marriage with Marco is set, Simonetta is swept up into Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici's glittering circle of politicians, poets, artists, and philosophers. The men of Florence--most notably the rakish Giuliano de' Medici--become enthralled with her beauty. That she is educated and an ardent reader of poetry makes her more desirable and fashionable still. But it is her acquaintance with a young painter, Sandro Botticelli, which strikes her heart most. Botticelli immediately invites Simonetta, newly proclaimed the most beautiful woman in Florence, to pose for him. As Simonetta learns to navigate her marriage, her place in Florentine society, and the politics of beauty and desire, she and Botticelli develop a passionate intimacy, one that leads to her immortalization in his masterpiece, The Birth of Venus."--
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