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The Birth of Venus

Love and death in Florence

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Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo.

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The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant

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2004
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Love and death in Florence
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English
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Virago Press
Released
2004
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Paperback
ISBN10
1844080358
ISBN13
9781844080359
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2004
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The Birth of Venus
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Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo.