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 评分一口气吐完了《维纳斯的诞生》。 看完之后又有种莫名的低落,是因为亚历山德拉的死吗?说不上,总之,这不是个完满的结局。但是相比较那些矫揉做作的众多影视作品最终仓促的假完美来说,我宁愿品尝前者凄楚的残缺。 其实,对女主人来说,何谓残缺?就像她说的:现在记忆...
评分语言优美 内容也好
评分语言优美 内容也好
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.
评分I just love this kind of art history fiction. I can't help it.
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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