The Birth of Venus : A Novel (Paperback)

from melydia

This is not a book I would have ordinarily picked up. I'd heard it was kind of like Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, but it's really not at all. Yes, it's about a woman and a painter in Europe, but that's about where the similarity ends. In truth, I have no idea where the title comes...

from melydia

This is not a book I would have ordinarily picked up. I'd heard it was kind of like Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, but it's really not at all. Yes, it's about a woman and a painter in Europe, but that's about where the similarity ends. In truth, I have no idea where the title comes...

from nbmars

In a startling beginning, Sister Lucrezia of the convent of Santa Vitella outside Florence, Italy has died, having requested previously that her body not be touched, and that she be buried in her habit. Because of an outbreak of plague in a nearby village however, the nuns deem it necessary to ru...

from jolerie

The Birth of Venus is as beautiful as it is violent. It is journey of one woman's quest and struggle to be more than life would allow her. It is her story of love, and betrayal, passion, and destruction. As indicative of the patron goddess of physical love and the seeking of knowledge, Venus, Ale...

from nycbookgirl

The story takes place in 15th century Florence when Italy's decadent ways are starting to become a little too flamboyant for the church. Alessandra Cecchi is the 14-year old daughter of a wealthy cloth merchant who is starting to make that transition from childhood to adulthood. To make things mo...