莎拉・杜楠特生活在伦敦和佛罗伦萨。写过八部小说,编过两本文集,其中小说《一错再错》(Transgressions)和《敢为人先》(Mappin9 theEdge)被搬上银幕,引起了公众广泛的注意。她的职业生涯十分复杂,曾在电视台、广播电台和出版业工作过,现在仍是英国广播电台品牌艺术节目“夜间电波”的播音员。
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.
From the Hardcover edition.
包含了吸引我的很多元素:翡冷翠,绘画,爱,痛苦,涅槃。 除了生物课本之外普及我**知识的第一本书(囧)
评分读的这句话时,我满心欢喜。当然不是说我常口吐花瓣,只是觉得这个比喻如此生动,少女所见都可以纳入自身的世界。 全书的故事,一言以弊之,那就是一个女性成长的经历吧。尽管故事的背景被设定在了一个极尽豪奢却又摇摇欲坠的时代和城市,主人公对于爱情、自由的追求以及特定时...
评分包含了吸引我的很多元素:翡冷翠,绘画,爱,痛苦,涅槃。 除了生物课本之外普及我**知识的第一本书(囧)
评分 评分个人认为,很多人对此书的简评有失公正,完全,几乎概括的都是男女之间的爱恨情仇,完全是为了吸引一些对爱情迷茫,或者是懵懵懂懂憧憬的小女生而扭曲事实而写下的东西。而书本身则要伟大的多,他讲述了一个故事,在一个时代,一个齐声合唱哈利路亚,万千个声音合为一体的时代...
结尾并不如我所期待,这确实是一本很engaging的书,如果可以明天写两本书的reviews。
评分一段文艺复兴时期狗血的爱情故事,但由于糅合了关于宗教,艺术,自由,欲望的描述与讨论,还是有趣,值得一读,但确实不如烟花散尽和神圣的心优雅。
评分Dunant shows her love for Florence, as the city---all its landscapes and sounds and smells lived vividly through the novel. I do enjoy the metaphorical "Birth" of our lady in the novel but the ending was just, rushed. Pretty engaging read.
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评分语言优美 内容也好
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