The Birth of Venus [Audiobook] download free by Sarah Dunant
- Listen audiobook: The Birth of Venus
- Author: Sarah Dunant
- Release date: 2004/12/18
- Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Romance
- ISBN: 9780812968972
- Rating: 9.23 of 10
- Votes: 244
- Review by: Samira Chappell
- Review rating: 8.55 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/28
- Duration: 5H29M43S in 256 kbps (89.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-27
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MP3, TTA, WAV, WMA Lossless, FLAC, MPEG4 (compression RAR, ACE, LZO, LZ, ZIP, DMG)
- Total pages original book: 448
- Includes a PDF summary of 39 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 28M3S (7.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain's most innovative writers of literary suspense. 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Contemporary Fiction
- Download servers: Microsoft OneDrive, Mediafire, Localhostr, MEGA, Google Drive, 4Shared, Send U It, Hotfile. Compressed in RAR, ACE, LZO, LZ, ZIP, DMG
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.70 USD
- Dimensions: 129.54x203.2x27.94mm
- Weight: 294.83g
- Printed by: Random House Inc
- Published in: New York, United States
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