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.
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。
石板路,蛋彩画,班驳的墙壁,美丽的华服,悲喜交加的爱情... 如果可以穿越一次,我愿意穿越到文艺复兴时期的佛罗伦萨. 私认为佛罗伦萨那另一个浪漫的名字:翡冷翠,并不是那样能体现出这个城市的精粹. 因为这个名字所包含的色彩太冷,不是散发着暖色光环的花城所要表现的.
评分感觉就是在ZB串历史写荒诞满纸的猎奇但还不到米兰昆德拉的境界远远不到。怎么嗅都觉得伪艺术题目起的真的太ZB了有点恶心……
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...
评分十二年前的夏天,我在上海某杂志上班。杂志处于筹办期,工作轻松,所以当朋友问是否有兴趣翻译一部以文艺复兴的佛罗伦萨为背景的小说,我毫不犹豫地答应了。现在回想起来,真是汗颜与感激兼而有之。 说汗颜,是因为当初年少轻狂,有着莫名其妙、近乎盲目的自信。我前一年才从...
I just love this kind of art history fiction. I can't help it.
评分A superficial story with smooth sentences and some extreme but irrelevant scenes
评分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I just love this kind of art history fiction. I can't help it.
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