
The birth of Venus: love and death in Florence
General fiction, Historical fiction
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from Northern Europe to decorate the walls of the family chapel in their Florentine palazzo. Alessandra is drawn into the life of… a city where the new freedoms of the mind rub shoulders with the old sins of the flesh. Some descriptions of sex. 2003.
Title Details
ISBN
9780316725491
Publisher
Little
Copyright Date
2003
Book number
2421016
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Ann Saunders
Duration
13 hours 58 minutes 30 seconds
Audio producer
CNIB, 2005.